Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I see so many tattoos of my stuff on people - tattoos of my book covers, tattoos of quotes . . .… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It is a hundred-year-old witch book, bound in human skin and probably written in ancient cum...YOU lick it! — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to make an ongoing effort… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you haven't already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.In… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I realized that my book readings were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people saw 'Fight Club' and thought, 'Right, here's our next Che Guevara, here's our next Fidel Castro,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I take pens and I write on the inside of my arm. When I'm with people and somebody says a really fascinating… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Books can create a depth of story, a background of information and ideas, that televison and movies can't. Sure, the television shows… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The strength of film is its accessibility and immediacy. But the strength of books is that freedom to really depict anything you… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
As a culture, we believe that if we kill something, we've killed the issue. That's why so many books end with death,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It's interesting because when David Fincher was making "Fight Club," he said, "It's a romance." And it really is. Almost everything I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“We drive west the rest of the night, away from where the sun will come up, trying to outrace it, trying not to see… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“Branch Bacardi, star of The Da Vinci Load, To Drill a Mockingbird, The Postman Always Cums Twice, Chitty Chitty Gang Bang, The Twilight Bone,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“Every unkind remark or crude gesture by others is a blessing, an opportunity to exercise our own capacity to forgive.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“Nuestro deber es enseñar a esos hombres y mujeres la libertad a través de la esclavitud; y el coraje a través del miedo.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
