“Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.” WantFeelsWritingStuffInterestingAdultsAdulthood Author:John Darnielle
“You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday and you're 17 years old.” FeelsYearsSelfNew YorkLike YouWalkingEveningFridayJuneOld Self Author:John Darnielle
“It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.” FeelsHardLikes Author:John Darnielle
“I just started going to shows. I don't know how submerged I am: I feel guilty that I don't get out more, but I really like being inside the house.” KnowsFeelsShowsHouseKnow HowGuiltySubmerged Author:John Darnielle
“[Robert] Aikman would write horror stories that weren't gore, they weren't slashers, and they weren't monster stories either. He called them ghost stories. The main thing about them was the vibe. It was really disquieting. He wanted to sketch the scene so that you could see it and know the characters and get a feel for the motion - and then ask yourself why and not get a final answer. Leave something that itches. I loved that!” KnowsFeelsWritingCharacterStoriesWantedAsksAnswersHorrorSceneFinalsMonstersGhostGoreGhost StoriesHorror Stories Author:John Darnielle
“Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.” PeopleFeelsSelfYoungSidesRighteousSelf Righteous Author:John Darnielle
“I have a hunger for justice, but art is a place I've always enjoyed being able to be free - to live in worlds that you don't have to be thinking about that all the time. I don't see myself writing Upton Sinclair books. My books are to entertain, although to me, entertainment is to make you feel sadness or to get in touch with your own pain - or fear, or to remember somebody who has gone missing from your life. That's my calling.” ThinkingWorldFeelsWritingArtBookAblePainRememberJusticeGoneSadnessMissingCallingArt IsHungerEntertainmentEnjoyed Author:John Darnielle
“There are stylists I really love. I'm a huge Joan Didion fan - if I wrote something that she might like, then I'd feel very proud. I want the action to move as quickly as it does in A Book of Common Prayer, where one thing bonks right into another very quickly.” IfsWantFeelsDoeBookMightActionMovingPrayerCommonOne ThingFansHugeProudStylist Author:John Darnielle
“My family, before the divorce, moved several times, and after that we moved a whole bunch more times, and so I don't have an anchor to a single place. Probably as a result of that, I'm a little more attenuated to when people do feel close identification to place, whether they say it out aloud or not. I think that there's a sort of local patriotism that is deeper than national patriotism.” PeopleThinkingFeelsLittlesWholeResultsMy FamilyMovedDeeperDivorceLocalsBunchMore TimeAnchorsIdentification Author:John Darnielle
“It's an important moment as a reader, I think, when you can forget the question of whether you need to know what happened. Some people really want hard explanations. I'm the other way. I like mysteries. I don't want to frustrate people. I don't want people to feel like they got no answers, but I want to approach the mystery and sit with it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantNeedsFeelsImportantHardMomentsAnswersForgetHappenedMysteryReaderApproachExplanationImportant Moments Author:John Darnielle
“Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.” FeelsAliveStupidStupid ThingsVery Stupid Author:John Darnielle
