Chuck Klosterman Quotes

• We all convince ourselves of things like this- not necessarily about Say Anything, but about any fictionalized portrayals of romance that happen to hit us in the right place, at the right time.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Romance

• When exactly did every housewife in America become a whore?

  Chuck Klosterman

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Women

• Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

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  Topics in Art, Love

• You’re trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Person, Comfortable

• When you’re writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can’t swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you’re writing for the next day.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing, Freedom, Parameters

• To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn’t mean you need to attack the person, but you do need to look at it like you’re trying to get information that has not been written about before.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person, Mean, Information

• The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I’m totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Entertaining, Things

• 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.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Writing, Different

• The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer’s main motivation is to become friends with the band. They’re not really journalists; they’re people who want to be involved in rock and roll.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Friends, Problem, Rock

• The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn’t afford a home computer – I had to get a new job so I could buy a computer. It could all change though. In five years, I could be back at some daily newspaper, which wouldn’t be so bad.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change, Writing

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Important, Different

• It didn’t seem remotely possible. I had no idea how people got those jobs, I didn’t know what the steps were, it never even dawned on me. It seemed so outside the realm of possibility.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Idea, Possible

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Example, Cool, Entertainment

• If you’re doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you’re not going to have a relationship with them, they’re not going to like you, they’re not going to be your friend.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Friend, Need, Relationship

• I’ve been asked about this constantly, and I compare it to how if you’re walking down the street and some schizo guy comes up to you and vomits on you: You wouldn’t be hurt by that, you’d just think it’s weird.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hurt, Constantly, Think

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Different, Things

• I keep saying the word “weird” over and over again, but it’s the only way I can describe it.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Saying, Describe

• 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.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Culture, Interested

• 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.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in People, Sorry, Really

• 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.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Everything, Completely

Chuck Klosterman (26)

Birth:	5th June, 1972
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Columnist, Essayist

About

Charles John "Chuck" Klosterman was born in Breckenridge, Minnesota. He is an American author, columnist and essayist who has written books and essays focused on American popular culture. He graduated from Wyndmere High School in 1990 and from the University of North Dakota in 1994. He has been a columnist for Esquire and ESPN.com and wrote "The Ethicist" column for The New York Times Magazine. Klosterman is the author of eight books including two novels and the essay collection, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto. He was a senior writer for Spin and wrote a column titled "My Back Pages".

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