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 d…

- Scott Mcclanahan

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

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

- Scott Mcclanahan

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

- Scott Mcclanahan

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

- Scott Mcclanahan

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 th…

- Scott Mcclanahan

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

- Scott Mcclanahan

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

- Scott Mcclanahan

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

- Scott Mcclanahan