Stories Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

— Chuck Palahniuk

You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone.

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The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact.

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A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

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A good story should change the way you see the world.

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Who you are moment to moment is just a story.

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In almost all my work, I try to re-invent Christian images and stories and themes. You'd be amazed by the letters I…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I really believe it's the moments we can't talk about that become the rest of our lives. It's the moments we can't…

— Chuck Palahniuk

That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of…

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What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story…

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People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap…

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We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk…

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A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like…

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The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.

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What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in…

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When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling…

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I remember selling my first short story and thinking, Oh my god, I sold something for fifty dollars! That gives me the…

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I can manage my own pain. I can drink. I can go to the doctor and get a prescription. I can exercise.…

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My life has been about living like a monk and looking like a priest so that people will come up to me…

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I didn't use anybody's story. I used the context and the structure of the situation. People were so, so desperate to tell…

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Books can create a depth of story, a background of information and ideas, that televison and movies can't. Sure, the television shows…

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I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to…

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I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then…

— Chuck Palahniuk

My writing has to excite people and depict or include their experiences. That's part of my process - to go out and…

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So often with beginning writers, the story that they want to start with is the most important story of their life -…

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As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a…

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This is why I loved the support groups so much, if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.…

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An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained,…

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People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered…

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The only place where you can really surprise or shock the reader, or make someone laugh, is on the lower righthand corner…

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My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl.

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Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.

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Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.

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Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.

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The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

— Chuck Palahniuk

There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.

— Chuck Palahniuk

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.

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Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.

— Chuck Palahniuk