September 6, 2005

Ben Gibbard on Writing a Book

(Filed under: Artistry)

"The thought sometimes crosses my mind that it would be nice to do short stories or to do fiction, but it just seems really complicated. I tend to think in terms of smaller pictures instead of larger pictures. I'm fascinated by how someone goes about writing a book. How do you do that? Do you lay out what's going to happen where? Writing songs, it seems kind of easy. You have a certain set space in which to say something. There's a verse and a chorus and a verse and a chorus. Though, for the most part, I don't write choruses."

-Death Cab for Cutie lead singer and songwriter Ben Gibbard talking about whether or not he'd write short stories or fiction. Death Cab for Cutie just released their latest album, Plans. (Paste, Aug./Sept. 2005)

Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks at 12:44 PM

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