Book Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

Every author has to eventually write a food book.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Wait- there was a book?”

— Chuck Palahniuk

My books didn't fit a marketing niche.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“A book is as private and consensual as sex.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.

— Chuck Palahniuk

There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Few things in life seem more sexy than a banned book.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

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

It is a hundred-year-old witch book, bound in human skin and probably written in ancient cum...YOU lick it!

— Chuck Palahniuk

I see so many tattoos of my stuff on people - tattoos of my book covers, tattoos of quotes . . .…

— Chuck Palahniuk

While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps…

— Chuck Palahniuk

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and…

— Chuck Palahniuk

My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.

— Chuck Palahniuk

The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I realized that my book readings were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

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

My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

“A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast…

— Chuck Palahniuk

To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

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

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

There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your…

— Chuck Palahniuk

My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The strength of film is its accessibility and immediacy. But the strength of books is that freedom to really depict anything you…

— Chuck Palahniuk