There is a social contract in "Fight Club" and in "Choke" where the protagonist has deceived a whole bunch of people. In… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The only thing that separates us from the animals...is we have pornography. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The point was, there'd be nothing to this if you were beautiful and sexy. The point was, in a world where everybody… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we don't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. Even… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting. — 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
I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“To Mr. Jones, she said, imagine you're looking up at a blue sky, and imagine a tiny airplane skywriting the letter Z.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, there was no way I'd write a sex scene. That just seemed impossible. That's why in "Fight… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The magic of sex is it's acquisition without the burden of possession. No matter how many women you take home, there's never… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“We’ve spent so much time judging what other people created that we’ve created very, very little of our own.” Out” — 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
We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our… — 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
