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
Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste… — 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
“Reread that Bronte book all you want, but Jane Eyre's never going to get gender-reassignment surgery or train to become a kick-ass… — 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
You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly,… — 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
“By the middle of the novel I decided that what two people don't say to each other forges a stronger bond than… — 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
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 hips bristle with totems and talismans, proof that I am not simply a character in a fixed book or film. I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I don’t expect you to understand,” Adam says. “You’re still the eight-year-old sitting in school, sitting in church, believing everything you’re told.… — 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
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
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
And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss… — 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
“My hips bristle with totems and talismans, proof that I am not simply a character in a fixed book or film. I… — 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
I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then… — 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
You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“You must be kidding." She says, "Having the power of life and death isn't enough. You must wonder what other poems are… — 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
“At least Anne Frank,” Comrade Snarky said, “never had to tour with her book . . .” — 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 Image
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 Image
His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“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 Image
Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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 Image
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