Chuck Klosterman Quotes

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

  Chuck Klosterman

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Women

• 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

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

  Chuck Klosterman

  Topics in Art, Love

• Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they’re honest about everything.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Everything, Obviously

• 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

• A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Successful, Person

• A whole bunch of months passed and I didn’t hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Anything, Months

• Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus – as a writer myself – I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Myself, Obviously

• 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.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Wanted, 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.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Everything, Completely

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

  Chuck Klosterman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Saying, Describe

• 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

• 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.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing, Different

• 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.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Different, Things

• 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 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

• 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.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Friend, Need, Relationship

• 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.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Example, Cool, Entertainment

• 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.

  Chuck Klosterman

  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

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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