Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well. — 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
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
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
“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
My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held. — 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
The pretentiousness of literature really annoys me; the way a writer is held as this sort of magical person to be revered… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more… — 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
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
With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may… — 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
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
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
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
Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a… — 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
I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I… — 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
The only place where you can really surprise or shock the reader, or make someone laugh, is on the lower righthand corner… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world.… — 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
In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Picture time travel as nothing more than knocking your half-read book to the floor and losing your place. You pick up the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I have an experience with as many of my readers as possible that's really genuine. I love it when they write to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think it's more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who… — 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
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