Quotes from Scott McClanahan

I think all good art is outsider art.

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.

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.

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

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.

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."

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.

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

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.