Chuck Klosterman quote: "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."

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When I'm writing, I try not to think things like, 'Gosh, I have to finish writing this book....
LINDA SUE PARK

I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow u...
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I like writing about what to me are like questions that I have about myself and the human condition....
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The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to b...
KELSEA BALLERINI

I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary...
SAMUEL R. DELANY

The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why th...
ADELE

It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. A...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

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HAKAN NESSER

Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier t...
ROXANE GAY

I'm like, 'I think I'm just going to wear what makes me happy,' so I'm just real...
LILLY SINGH

Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was gr...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN

I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had...
RICHARD MARX

I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.
SAM DEW

There's something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the a...
JON SECADA

I'm just very grateful that the media has been so kind to me, because there's nothing unusua...
MARY BERRY

As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write...
SAMUEL BARBER

When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that...
ROB LOWE

For me, writing music is kind of like a musical mirror where I write music and learn about myself in...
DANIEL TRUEMAN GS

People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious bra...
MARTIN AMIS

Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing an...
ARTHUR SMITH

I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

The things that are happening to me are unbelievable. I'm actually busier right now than when I ...
JERRY RICE

When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, jus...
PAULA POUNDSTONE

For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things t...
TAD WILLIAMS

When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinkin...
MIRANDA JULY

I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
J. A. KONRATH

One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I...
JOHN BURNSIDE

I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth...
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE

I have a deep feeling for Kashmir, and I just had to write this book, ... [But] it's very hard to wr...
SALMAN RUSHDIE

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with m...
ETGAR KERET

When I had my daughter, my priorities shifted. Being in the world of fashion you have to be very sel...
CAROLYN MURPHY

I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my wri...
ERIN MORGENSTERN

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself.
J. K. ROWLING

I was a bad guy. If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was ho...
JAMES FREY

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Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed, and you are surrounded by people wh...
CAROLYN MURPHY

I write a lot about disadvantaged people, particularly vulnerable children, because I feel that that...
CHARLES M. BLOW

I'm a very mellow person. There are things about me that are intense, obviously.
SAMUEL LARSEN

One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored v...
TIBOR FISCHER

The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a ...
MARTHA STEWART

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm ...
TANITH LEE

Outside of interviews, I spend very little time thinking about myself. I spend time thinking about m...
MONICA ALI

There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'...
ABBY ELLIOTT

Someone yelled at me once, 'You never write about yourself.' People used to get so mad at me...
SUZAN-LORI PARKS

Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that...
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. ...
KATE ATKINSON

I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu...
JAMES C. DOBSON

Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based ...
MATTHEW MCGRORY

I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, t...
JACKIE EVANCHO

Of course it's fun writing about an egomaniac, but I know there are going to be reviewers who...
MICHEL FABER

Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going...
JOAN JETT

There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that ...
WALTER BECKER

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ASHWIN SANGHI

I'm just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I'm inspired to go back...
KENDRICK LAMAR

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MAYA ANGELOU

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KELLY JONES

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RYAN SHECKLER

I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which ...
WALTER MOSLEY

To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use ...
JAMES HORNER

A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON

To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know,...
TOM WOLFE

It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
KARL ROVE

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in...
J. K. ROWLING

Writers don't make good spouses. When I am writing, I'm not a good wife. I shut myself away,...
CLAIRE TOMALIN

One thing about me is that I'm very much like the Black Madonna. I love to reinvent myself and t...
LIL' KIM

I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feel...
COREY HAIM

Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-a...
LOUISE PENNY

There are certain things about me that I will never tell to anyone because I am a very private perso...
MARY TYLER MOORE

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RAY CHARLES

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MADELEINE PEYROUX

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me u...
ANGELINA JOLIE

I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.
EDMUND WHITE

We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.
KANYE WEST

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and r...
ANTONY BEEVOR

I'm really passionate about things I enjoy, and I like to be out there doing things, and learnin...
STEVE NASH

I don't feel real confident expressing myself except when I'm writing. I feel kind of scatte...
CONOR OBERST

The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but t...
TEJU COLE

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DAN BROWN

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DAPHNE WHITE

For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I&#...
KATE GRENVILLE

I can't admit things; that's why I can't go to funerals and stuff like that. I find it v...
SIMON COWELL

I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers w...
SAM SHEPARD

A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious an...
BILLY CAMPBELL

I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand peop...
ANN HOOD

I don't just write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it b...
NAYVADIUS CASH

One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, bu...
BERNARD CORNWELL

In the end, what matters is this: I survived.
GAIL HONEYMAN

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SOPHIE KINSELLA

I've just become more conscious about how much I do drink and how often I want to have a drink a...
PAYNE STEWART

When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience...
CHESTER BENNINGTON

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GLORIA ANZALDUA

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DAN PINK

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TOMMY LEE

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ARUNDHATI ROY

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by ou...
TED DEKKER

I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of mys...
UTADA HIKARU

Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to ...
ADAM GREEN

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TOM DRURY

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.

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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.

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