Latest Scott McClanahan Quotes from Interviews

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• In memoir, can you really tell the truth about yourself? You're not going to write about your little peccadilloes, like, "I like a finger in my ass during sex." Or whatever it is. You're not going to come out in typical everyday conversation and say that. That's something that's going to be only for a select few.

  Scott McClanahan

  Sex, Writing, Everyday

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm shocked and surprised by people that are shocked and surprised that certain things in life are made up or not as true as you might believe them to be.

  Scott McClanahan

  Believe, Things In Life, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There was a lot of tension between my dad and his mother and brothers. Sometimes when I was over there, I remember thinking, "I don't want to get shot."

  Scott McClanahan

  Mother, Brother, Dad

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think maybe it's my personality. People don't like my face.

  Scott McClanahan

  Thinking, People, Personality

  "Indie author Scott McClanahan considers art and anecdote through 5 of his favorite books". Interview with Phil McCausland, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

• It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music or making stories. It's the strangest thing.

  Scott McClanahan

  Writing, People, Musician

  "Indie author Scott McClanahan considers art and anecdote through 5 of his favorite books". Interview with Phil McCausland, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

• With my stuff, I think I've tried. I've been courted. I don't want to sound like an asshole, but I've been courted to be someone who could sell a lot of books.

  Scott McClanahan

  Book, Thinking, Sound

  "Indie author Scott McClanahan considers art and anecdote through 5 of his favorite books". Interview with Phil McCausland, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

• I guess the things I have always loved are from people who were just being themselves. They were doing these things because they couldn't do it any other way. It was for them.

  Scott McClanahan

  People, Way, Just Being

  "Indie author Scott McClanahan considers art and anecdote through 5 of his favorite books". Interview with Phil McCausland, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

• Samuel Clemens isn't Mark Twain. Mark Twain is Mark Twain. He doesn't become the thing until he creates himself.

  Scott McClanahan

  Mark

  "Indie author Scott McClanahan considers art and anecdote through 5 of his favorite books". Interview with Phil McCausland, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

• So much of our culture is bought and manufactured - not to say great art can't come out of that. Some art is really amazing that is manufactured and sold, like action movies and stuff.

  Scott McClanahan

  Art, Culture, Stuff

  "Indie author Scott McClanahan considers art and anecdote through 5 of his favorite books". Interview with Phil McCausland, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

• This [Thelonious Monk: The Life And Times Of An American Original] is another one of those books with the perfect blend of anecdote and analysis. The analysis is built into the anecdote. It has that right feel about it. It's not too scholarly, either.

  Scott McClanahan

  Book, Perfect, Anecdotes

  Source: www.avclub.com

• [He Stopped Loving Her Today] is all about the experience of being alive and the thought process of consciousness, and then you have these polemical essay-type things going on for a couple decades now. Some of these music books are where you're going to see an anecdote of a person behaving without some kind of commentary.

  Scott McClanahan

  Couple, Book, Anecdotes

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The things that I have loved have always been those extremes where there has been some kind of apocalypse in the person's life, and they come out unscathed or scathed.

  Scott McClanahan

  Kind, Apocalypse, Extremes

  "Indie author Scott McClanahan considers art and anecdote through 5 of his favorite books". Interview with Phil McCausland, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

• It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped Loving Her Today]. Fiction now is so experiential.

  Scott McClanahan

  Book, Anecdotes, Fiction

  "Indie author Scott McClanahan considers art and anecdote through 5 of his favorite books". Interview with Phil McCausland, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

• "He Stopped Loving Her Today" a fascinating book about the making of a record. Really, to be honest, it has some of the best George Jones anecdotes I've ever read, like cocaine psychosis causing this personality called "the Duck."

  Scott McClanahan

  Book, Ducks, Psychosis

  "Indie author Scott McClanahan considers art and anecdote through 5 of his favorite books". Interview with Phil McCausland, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

• Fellini is a just a province kid. Rome exists for Fellini, not the other way around.

  Scott McClanahan

  Kids, Rome, Way

  Source: www.thefader.com

• New York exists for me. Not me for it.

  Scott McClanahan

  New York

  Source: www.thefader.com

• You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad and it's all right there in front of you.

  Scott McClanahan

  Girl, Mom, Song

  Source: www.thefader.com

• We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.

  Scott McClanahan

  Writing, Artist, Levels

  Source: www.thefader.com

• Fashion costs money, but songs are free. You can write them for free and you can sing them for free and they can infect those around you or the people from the future and they can sing them for free too.

  Scott McClanahan

  Fashion, Song, Writing

  Source: www.thefader.com

• The whole exploitation thing is funny, too. Exploitation is the nature of the world, isn't it?

  Scott McClanahan

  World, Exploitation, Whole

  Source: www.thefader.com

• There's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries.

  Scott McClanahan

  People, Trying, Way

  Source: www.thefader.com

• Most of the answers to the world could be answered with our bodies.

  Scott McClanahan

  Answers, World, Body

  Source: www.thefader.com

• I think all good art is outsider art.

  Scott McClanahan

  Art, Thinking, Outsiders

  Source: www.thefader.com

• Everybody is so goddamn sure of themselves, it just makes you realize this is the curse of the modern world.

  Scott McClanahan

  World, Realizing, Modern

  Source: www.thefader.com

• The only hope we have are our bodies. We're all trapped in them and we all hate them, and it's this reason why we're comic and not tragic.

  Scott McClanahan

  Hate, Body, Reason Why

  Source: www.thefader.com