Because Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

12 Because quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk’s 12 ‘because’ statements bring his sharp, often subversive voice to the fore. In this brief set, he turns ordinary explanations into something a little darker and a lot more thought‑provoking.

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My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you…

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I never think I'm making fun of my culture. In fact I'm making fun of myself, because I catch myself doing some…

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When working, my diet degrades to pizza three times a day, because I don't want to distract myself from anything.

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My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's…

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For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction…

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Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they…

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I think it's more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who…

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My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't…

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With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to make an ongoing effort…

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I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative…

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My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is…

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I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing,…

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