Books Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

My books are all fantastically sentimental.

— Chuck Palahniuk

My policy is to not read any reviews.

— 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

If you're going to read this, don't bother.

— 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

Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking.

— 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

By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“At least Anne Frank,” Comrade Snarky said, “never had to tour with her book . . .”

— Chuck Palahniuk

I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“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

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

My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— 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 wouldn't get nearly as many books written if I lived in New York. The Columbia Gorge is fantastic. When the sun…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

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

“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

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

“My hips bristle with totems and talismans, proof that I am not simply a character in a fixed book or film. I…

— 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

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

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

“My hips bristle with totems and talismans, proof that I am not simply a character in a fixed book or film. I…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“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

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

— Chuck Palahniuk

As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.

— Chuck Palahniuk