It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, … - Scott McClanahan

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Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big bucks paid by magazines for the bridal photos: it is a spectacle of a bride-to-be as entrepreneur, not as romantic heroine; the groom, in this scenario, is nothing but a prop.

Scott McClanahan

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.

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I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' It’s just a painting.

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Writing should be like skirts. Long enough to cover what it needs to cover and short enough to maintain interest.

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Most book things now (with a few exceptions) are just built around nice, safe books written for nice and safe book club readers. These are usually the books you see on display at Barnes and Noble. These Internet writers are like literary terrorists to me. They're training as we speak. They're getting ready to invade. They're building an army.

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We like something because someone else liked it.

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I have no interest in being a trained ballerina. People should dance how they want to dance. I want to be the funky chicken.

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