The religious school she went to, growing up, Ms. Wright said how all the girls had to wear a scarf tied to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Peter used to say that an artist’s job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic...… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The… — 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
When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you. — 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
