Chuck Klosterman Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Chuck Klosterman quotes and sayings page 2 (52 year old critic). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 24 we have for him.
“At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think of themselves as writers. Part of that is because magazines worry about their voice.”
“The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.”
“Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.”
“Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn't get them. So I had to think critically and culturally about what was available.”
“I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened really fast. I can't give people advice, because everything in my life changed completely in less than a year and it's still not something I am used to.”
“I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really the only thing it's based on is whether it's good or not. No book editor, in my experience, is getting a manuscript and try to rewrite it.”
“I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.”
“I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren't things you know about until you do the story.”
“In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper.”
“It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media.”
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