There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Don't write about your most emotionally charged moment as a learning thing. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I really believe it's the moments we can't talk about that become the rest of our lives. It's the moments we can't… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Why should I believe any of this?' It happens that fast. I say, because I think I like you. Marla says, 'Not… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When you reach the end of your life - trust me, you won't look back and savor the moments you spent alone. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found… — 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.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Rant Casey used to say, "No matter what happens, it's always now..." Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I have an experience with as many of my readers as possible that's really genuine. I love it when they write to… — 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