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
Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you. — 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
And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires… — 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
Somehow people have been sold on the idea that only professionals can entertain them, that only professionals can sing or tell jokes.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't feel those… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Still, I'm doing… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You're a product of our language, and how our laws are and how we believe our God wants us. Every bitty molecule… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these… — 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
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
The strength of film is its accessibility and immediacy. But the strength of books is that freedom to really depict anything you… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again… — 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
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
More and more people are defining themselves not by what they are about, but by what they are against, what they are… — 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
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
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
Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community… — 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
Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most… — 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
Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet… — 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 think it's just a matter of time before everybody realizes that I'm kind of a romance novelist ... that these are… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people,… — 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
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