As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author. — 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
“We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
For sure, even the worst blow job is better than, say, sniffing the best rose . . . watching the greatest sunset. Hearing children laugh. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You’re training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“This isn't about love and hate," Helen says. It's about control. People don't sit down and read a poem to kill their… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we’ll be millionaires and movie stars and rock… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“One day the wickedness of the kings of the world would destroy us, oh sorrow, and armies of the world would march… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your… — 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
“All these people who say they want a life free from sexual compulsion, I mean forget it. I mean, what could ever… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“How Tyler saw it was that getting God's attention for being bad was better than getting no attention at all. Maybe God's… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose? We are God’s middle children, according to Tyler… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“By first believing in Santa Claus, then the Easter Bunny, then the Tooth Fairy, Rant Casey was recognizing that those myths are more than pretty stories and traditions to delight children. Or to modify behavior. Each of those three traditions asks a child to believe in the impossible in exchange for a reward. These are stepped-up tests to build a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“Each holiday tradition acts as an exercise in cognitive development, a greater challenge for the child. Despite the fact most parents don't… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A child who is disillusioned abruptly, by his peers or siblings, being ridiculed for his faith and imagination, may choose never to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I just didn’t want to be fixed. Whatever my real problems might be, I didn’t want them cured. None of the little… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows… — 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
