'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I have a lot of fans who are in the prison system, where ramen noodles are a kind of staple. Prisoners are… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The pretentiousness of literature really annoys me; the way a writer is held as this sort of magical person to be revered… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really well. And… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectly with the comic-con crowd. — 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
