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A novel is a performance you have to plan.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
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Novel
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The fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind.
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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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From a very young age, I was the kind of kid you can just put anywhere and I'd still find stuff to be stoked about.
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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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It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.
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I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.
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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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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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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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You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.
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This is the funny thing about me. People think John just comes up with all the ideas. I'm honored. People think I have a big old brain, but actually I am the sum of the people I work with.
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In wrestling, people just throw each other around, possibly actually bleed, and are still friends in the locker room afterwards. But there's a real glee - a feeling goes up in the arena, especially on non-TV days. If it's just people in a room and somebody starts to bleed, that's very exciting.
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The only people who are afraid of file sharing are the people whose albums are so dull presentation-wise that nobody cares about owning the actual finished product, and the people who have so little connection to their listeners that said listeners have no reason to care whether the artists they like are getting reimbursed for their efforts.
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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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I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.
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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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I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.
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May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
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My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, I know that dude! I like that dude! It's incredibly affirming.
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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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