Ideas Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

and i can't stand the idea of being alone. i can't bear the thought of being free.

— Chuck Palahniuk

We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.

— Chuck Palahniuk

You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I…

— Chuck Palahniuk

We are a nation of physical animals who have forgotten how much we enjoy being that. We are cushioned by this kind…

— Chuck Palahniuk

As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The ultimate joke was the idea that capitalism would eat its own feces in order to make money, that would make fun…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Even if you tell yourself "Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way ... from a dirty boot." Even that would…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I learned all those jokes in second grade. Second grade is really where they tell you those horrific jokes, racist jokes and…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Books can create a depth of story, a background of information and ideas, that televison and movies can't. Sure, the television shows…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

Alternating the thoughtful task of writing with the mindless work of laundry or dish washing will give you the breaks you need…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Somehow people have been sold on the idea that only professionals can entertain them, that only professionals can sing or tell jokes.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Really, just looking around, you feel a twinge of pity for the poor souls who succeeded in getting past the Pearly Gates.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Griping isn't the same as creating something. Rebelling isn't rebuilding. Ridiculing isn't replacing. We've taken the world apart but we have no…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them…

— Chuck Palahniuk

All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The religious school she went to, growing up, Ms. Wright said how all the girls had to wear a scarf tied to…

— Chuck Palahniuk

My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

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

Inside me is the same desperate hope I have watching the ravenous dead and thinking, Oh please, oh please, oh please. The…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with…

— Chuck Palahniuk