People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Just for the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.” — 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
I see so many tattoos of my stuff on people - tattoos of my book covers, tattoos of quotes . . .… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“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
People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school… — 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
Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you’d never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat… — 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
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
If you haven't already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.In… — 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
I learned all those jokes in second grade. Second grade is really where they tell you those horrific jokes, racist jokes and… — 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
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
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
So often with beginning writers, the story that they want to start with is the most important story of their life -… — 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 think that young people are less attached to items and objects now. They're less attached to consuming things and accruing things… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The one thing I cannot stand is when I do interviews, when I interview people, and I listen to the tapes and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Sundays tend to be a day where just I do nothing but visit people. It's kind of like trick-or-treating. — 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
You kill strangers deliberately so you don't accidentally kill the people you love. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Since September 11, 2001, the real world has become too scary for a lot of people to be with - all the time. — 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
People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I… — 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
I always really curious to see how people interpret things. I know my version, and I'm kind of bored with my version… — 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
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
His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“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
“Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
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
“Branch Bacardi, star of The Da Vinci Load, To Drill a Mockingbird, The Postman Always Cums Twice, Chitty Chitty Gang Bang, The Twilight Bone,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“Every unkind remark or crude gesture by others is a blessing, an opportunity to exercise our own capacity to forgive.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“Nuestro deber es enseñar a esos hombres y mujeres la libertad a través de la esclavitud; y el coraje a través del miedo.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
