“Hero" isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“As if any one of those people isn’t already looking around for a new guru to make sense out of their risk-free… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Anymore, no one's mind is their own. You can't concentrate. You can't think. There's always some noise worming in. Singers shouting. Dead… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Anymore, no one's mind is their own. You can't concentrate. You can't think. There's always some noise worming in. Singers shouting. Dead… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Our misery. This suppression of our rational mind is the source of inspiration. Suffering takes us out of our rational self-control and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“the cultures that don't castrate you to make you a slave, they castrate your mind. They make sex so filthy and evil… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“At some point, Wax mentioned how appalling it seemed that those brilliant minds who could invent miracle medicines and nuclear fission and dazzling computer special effects, they had such a complete lack of imagination when it came to spending their money: granite countertops and luxury cars. Talking about that stuff, Wax driving, the madder he got, you could watch the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“It’s worth noting up front that I have always conceived of my mind as a digestive organ. A stomach for processing knowledge, if you will. As a looping, wrinkled mass, a human brain unmistakably looks like gray intestines, and it’s within these thinking bowels that my experiences are broken down, consumed to become my life story. My thoughts occur as… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics. Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed... and this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“recognition skills. Your subconscious. Your left brain is a scientist. Your right brain is an artist. People live their lives out of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The sound shivers through the walls, through the table, through the window frame, and into my finger. These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics. Old… — 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
