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I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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Bloomington
Indiana
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While writing is a mystical process, it's also work. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for it. When you get an idea, write it down somewhere and then be a steward of that idea.
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Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
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This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.
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I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.
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I suspect by the time the Beatles were writing the White Album, they didn't go, 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand!' I wanna play that! It's like if somebody asked you to put on the clothes you wore in high school. Well, no. No!
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I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.
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I don't celebrate milestones and I don't do anniversary editions. It's not my style to reflect on accomplishments.
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One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.
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Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens.
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There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
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I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.
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If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them.
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In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's a real pleasure for me to hear people pushing their craft.
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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.
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The moment where you know the thing you want is ridiculous and pompous and a terrible thing to want anyway. The direction in which you're headed is not the direction you want to go, yet you're going to head that way a while longer cause that's just the kind of person you are.
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It's easy to follow national politics and weigh in on social media, but if I'm tweeting stuff about Chatham County, no one cares.
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I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what they need to do to succeed to give up, do something else.
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I usually kind of can't wait until my records leak. Back in the day, you could give people tapes, but you can't do that anymore, because it would be available to everyone on the planet within an hour.
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It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.
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