I don't know the difference between what I want and what I'm trained to want. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Don't rush or force the ending. All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I always really curious to see how people interpret things. I know my version, and I'm kind of bored with my version… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.” — 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
Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
And if you believe that we really have free will, then you know that God can't really control us. And since God… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I am a writer and the greatest compliment I can get is to know that I've contributed language to the culture, that… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Every character sees the world through a framework of education and experience that they're proud experts about. To write a character, find… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
What we think of as Halloween is really the product of media barons, city mayors, and candy-makers. You know, before the 1920s,… — 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
People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
As a culture, we believe that if we kill something, we've killed the issue. That's why so many books end with death,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Everybody's still miserable in the same way they've always been miserable, and more and more of my friends - especially my male… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Alternating the thoughtful task of writing with the mindless work of laundry or dish washing will give you the breaks you need… — 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