no one rocked harder than this guy. just chain smoked in the attic with his dog all day writing a song called “I hate my wife’s nasty best friend” and became a millionaire for it.

Many such cases. Like, an embarrassing number of them.

Please stop putting authors on pedestals. Same reason.

I finally started a #Substack! Find the first installment of the new #horror novella I'm working on here: jasperdewitt.substack.com/p/be-careful-w…

This person is properly living "be kind"

The year is 2005. The Pope just died, but you’re excited to see Revenge of the Sith in theaters. The year is 2025. The Pope just died, but you’re excited to see Revenge of the Sith in theaters.

Read even one page of a good book. A classic. Melville, Hemingway, Hawthorne, Emerson, etc. It won’t fight you or critique you. It will just put excellence in your brain.

Halle Berry in ‘The Flintstones’ 1994

I am just trying to imagine Bill Skarsgard's #Orlok trying the same shit in the modern age. "I am most...(wheeze)...intrigued...by the...Zillow...page...for this...property." "Stay, or...I will...give you...a poor...Yelp...review...Herr Hutter." #Nosferatu

Not every single piece of art ever made is political

I’m of the belief that American Psycho does not need to be remade. A remake of this film has nowhere to go but down. Remake this- why? For who? So we can see a less charismatic, less talented actor fail to step in the shoes of Christian Bale? If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.

"@LeckMichImArsch420: IF U DONT LIKE COSI FAN TUTTE (WHICH MEANS #AWALT LOL) UR A SIMP CUCK LIKE #SALIERI SRSLY I FUCKED HIS MISTRESS"

Fuck #KanyeWest 🖕🏻 And all who think like him. And all who participate in his insane hate mongering. And all who promote, or lend their platforms to him.

"YOU GRAPED HER!" "YOU UNALIVED HER!" "YOU UNSUBSCRIBED HER CHILDREN FROM LIFE!"

Second part of my new draft is now live on #Substack! jasperdewitt.substack.com/p/be-careful-w…

This is ridiculous. Fiction is only successful to the extent that the writer portrays human behavior accurately; otherwise you won't sell a single book. This is particularly true with, eg, my genre of #horror, because you're portraying humans under extreme, unprecedented stress.

"I am a great soft jelly thing. Smoothly rounded, with no mouth, with pulsing white holes filled by fog where my eyes used to be[....]I have no mouth and I must scream."

People who are 37-43 right now are extremely weird and maladaptive