> John Darnielle on Revision
"When you write, you are in some way correcting on your earlier attempts. I hope for myself that that is true. Because I don't want to do the same thing twice. If I'm doing something in the same vein, I want it to be better than the previous time.
It says that 'neither impulse can win. They can only conspire to push the style forward.' I think that is true. If you land on a side, you become still. You become static. It's funny. Everybody wants franchises, right? People want to read books in series. And I have very little interest in this. That's not a comprehensible aesthetic urge to me, the desire to hear the ninth story, see the ninth movie."
—John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats