Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Hero" isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you're trying to say.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“This really happens. It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you're… — 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
“A sphinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined. Unknowable. Indefinable. Those were all the words Brandy used to describe me in my… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You're a product of our language, and how our laws are and how we believe our God wants us. Every bitty molecule… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Language had arrived from outer space and mated together lizards and monkeys or whatever until it had customized a host which could… — 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
