As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
No, none of us seem so very real. We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other. Any real truth, any… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Every character sees the world through a framework of education and experience that they're proud experts about. To write a character, find… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You don't have ideas when you're sitting in that sort of sterile little place, and you're not around people. The most boring… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“People can't concieve of a virtue in someone else that they can't coneive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There's a big difference between "not caring" or being "nihilistic" about a topic and simply not being enrolled by the drama presented… — 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
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
