“One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.” Quote by Christine Keeler
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingPersonsEndsHardStoriesAsksWaitingRealizingWalksSuccessfulStrategyInterviewsHard Questions Author:Chuck Klosterman
“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.” PeopleKnowsYearsDifferentStoriesUsedFiveWeekSixEightNewspapersFortunateDifferent ThingsDifferent Peoples Author:Chuck Klosterman
“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.” IfsNeedsTryingLooksMeanPersonsArtistWrittenInformationLike YouInterviews Author:Chuck Klosterman
“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.” PeopleThinkingTryingPersonsIdeasAsksComfortableAskingInterviewsNew Ideas Author:Chuck Klosterman
“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.” WritingDifferentSubjectsEssaysPrisms Author:Chuck Klosterman
“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.” WritingBookSelfFunConsciousEntertainingEssaysBook WritingSelf Absorbed Author:Chuck Klosterman
“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.” IfsWritingUseNextNewspapersSwearNext DayParagraphParameters Author:Chuck Klosterman
“At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think of themselves as writers. Part of that is because magazines worry about their voice.” PeopleThinkingVoiceWorryBunchMagazinesCommitteesEdited Author:Chuck Klosterman
“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.” PeopleWayCountryCultureGrewGrew UpRadioStationsFarmsCablesRadio Stations Author:Chuck Klosterman
“My wife will tell you it's the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We're not into PDA, but every time we end a phone conversation, we say 'sarang,' which means love in Korean.” MeanLittlesEndsSchoolBoysWifeConversationPhonesMy WifeDrivingLittle ThingsKoreanDays OffMy BoysMean LovePda Author:Daniel Dae Kim