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When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that are real and I know of and going from there.
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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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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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It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.
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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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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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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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May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
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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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It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.
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Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people crazy, we exclude them from our circle.
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I'm sort of a cavedweller: I miss my house, my yard, my kitchen, my wife. The trees. When I get home, I like to get down into my office neighborhood as soon as I can.
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Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.
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