“We’ve spent so much time judging what other people created that we’ve created very, very little of our own.” Out” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In my family, we can't just sit and be together. We have to be shelling peas or husking corn or something. A… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people saw 'Fight Club' and thought, 'Right, here's our next Che Guevara, here's our next Fidel Castro,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most… — 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
As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didnt see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you make people laugh too much, their blood becomes - I believe it is acidic as opposed to alkaline. It changes… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My life has been about living like a monk and looking like a priest so that people will come up to me… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People… — 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. Most women… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having… — 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
