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As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.
John Hodgman
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John Hodgman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 3
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So much of creativity is the feeling that you're either getting a gift from some other dimension or some other part of yourself.
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More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.
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I would say aside from Moxie soda bottles and Masonic artifacts, there's nothing I really collect.
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Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.
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You know, I began my life as a creative person writing true things for magazines and telling some very honest, straightforward personal essaying for This American Life, but until someone forces you, with a deadline, to really observe your life - unless you're motivated to do it yourself - there's so many stories that you miss.
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I say, if you're going to eat a creature alive, you have to expect some screaming. That is the carnivore's burden.
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A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman) while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books.
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Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's sort of a trance. And when a piece is done, I have little memory of how I wrote it, and zero confidence I'd ever be able to do it again.
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I suspect that when the truth ceases to be heartbreakingly funny, we will be in a better place and a happier society over all.
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To want to become the President is, I think, such a bizarre ambition that it is automatically deranging.
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Most people presume my mustache is not real because it's much darker than my regular hair.
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John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald meet in hell and team up to assassinate Satan.
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What I've discovered more recently is copies of books that I didn't represent, but that my boss represented when I assisted her on the dollar pile. I won't mention any names, but it is this profoundly bittersweet time of realizing, Oh, I had a wonderful time working on this book and now it is a dollar relic on the side of the road.
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