“They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define… — 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
The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The only way that America can protect its prosperity and political stability will be to depopulate the Third World? Should we be… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention. Well, get used to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly,… — 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
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