The Best Way to Write - Is There a Style?

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i'm not uncomfortable just being myself. I mean, like, my style is no style, and i think that is the best style. It always seems like the best way to to write is to just find whatever is, ike, the most effective way. So, you know, what was i like when i was a kid? I know, probably weird, probably annoying. You know. In that classta mabe, i was the only person who read the thing that we were assigned.

Chuck Klosterman is a journalist and the author of eleven books, including his latest, The Nineties.

”Selling out… was very much injected into the way I understood the world…. And I am now supposed to do all of these interviews and all of these podcasts promoting this book. And because it's a book about the nineties… it feels incredibly uncomfortable to me…. I think young people assume that selling out is only about money: that if you try to do something to make money, that means you're selling out, because the word ‘sell’ is in there. But that's not really how it was. I mean, what you were selling out was this idea of your integrity. And what your integrity was, was somehow not doing anything to make other people like you.”

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