“Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.” PeopleNeedsHelpingIllIllnessMental IllnessDiagnosisMentally Ill Author:John Darnielle
“I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what they need to do to succeed to give up, do something else.” PeopleNeedsGivingWritingAsksStuffSucceedGiving UpSummerEveningAsk MeSummer Evening Author:John Darnielle
“I worked the AV counter at the Roland Heights public library in the '80s. My best story from the library was the time a couple asked for a recommendation, and I recommended Raising Arizona and they absolutely hated it. They came back hungry for blood. I was on my lunch break and my boss came out and said, "Hey kid, you need to come talk to these people. They totally hate Arizona." And he said, "Arizona's a dog; nobody gets that movie."” PeopleNeedsSaidStoriesKidsHateBreakBloodDogCoupleLibraryHungryHeyHatedHeightBossLunch80sArizonaRecommendationsPublic LibraryLunch Break Author:John Darnielle
“I think grief is a huge subject; it's one of the things that everybody is going to confront in one way or another. There's been a lot of books written about how Americans have an odd way of trying to defer grief or minimize the need to grieve. People used to have a lot more ritual grief in their lives. For the most part, we think of it as a strictly temporal process: you grieve for a time and then you're over [it], but it's also a spatial process. It travels across a map.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsTryingBookUsedProcessGriefWrittenSubjectsHugeOne WayOddGrievingOver ItMapsRitualSpatial Author:John Darnielle
“In the present political situation, it's an interesting phenomenon to look at: what is the appeal of an autocratic leader? Why do people want somebody who yells at them? For most of us, that's so hard to understand. Who wants that? I think there are a lot of people for whom that fulfills some kind of need.” PeopleThinkingWantNeedsLooksKindHardPoliticalInterestingSituationLeaderAppealsPhenomenon 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
“People always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what I need in my life is to be liberated into feeling bad. Not sad. I have plenty of sad. What I need is a place where I can spray anger in sparks like a gnarled piece of electrical cable. Just be mad at stuff and soak in the helplessness.” PeopleNeedsI CanFeelingsLife IsForceStuffPiecesRocksMadFeel GoodPlentyGood TimesSparksRock And RollLiberatingCablesLiberatedHelplessnessElectricalChuckSprayBerriesFeeling Bad Book:Black Sabbath's Master of Reality Source: Black Sabbath's Master of Reality
