Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
This is why I loved the support groups so much, if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There is a social contract in "Fight Club" and in "Choke" where the protagonist has deceived a whole bunch of people. In… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I can manage my own pain. I can drink. I can go to the doctor and get a prescription. I can exercise.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I didn't use anybody's story. I used the context and the structure of the situation. People were so, so desperate to tell… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My writing has to excite people and depict or include their experiences. That's part of my process - to go out and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Just let yourself be broken and humiliated. Just your whole life, keep telling people, I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Everyone holds a certain type of power. For young people, it's their youth, their attractiveness, and their energy. But they're terrified that… — 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
Most people would never admit it, but they'd been bitching since they were born. As soon as their head popped out into… — 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
