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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
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I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels, I might really be onto something.
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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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It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.
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It's impossible to be content all the time - you have to learn to be content in places where you're unhappy and owning your emotions, whatever they are.
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Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.
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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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If you're standing in the middle of a ring and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.
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When all my friends insisted that they were feeling jaded, it struck me as an affected pose. To me, everything is always new.
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There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.
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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.
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It's an important moment as a reader, I think, when you can forget the question of whether you need to know what happened. Some people really want hard explanations. I'm the other way. I like mysteries. I don't want to frustrate people. I don't want people to feel like they got no answers, but I want to approach the mystery and sit with it.
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Not everybody relates to pain, but if you can watch other people playacting it, you can absorb some of that vibe. It's like watching horror movies - you want to have the experience, but in a safe environment.
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The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along.
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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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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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Anything that is within you is a gift. To be able to take possession of that and say, Whatever it is, I am bigger than it, is to learn to cherish even the hard and painful things.
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