Scott McClanahan Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

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

  Scott McClanahan

  Writing, Long, Skirts

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

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