You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story. — 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
Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as 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… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There's a television show, 'Hoarders,' where people have those homes filled with stuff. Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“If events occur to challenge and test us and we experience them only as a story to be recorded and sold, then… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A good story isn't the one that shuts everyone down and sort of leaves them in silent awe. A good story is… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one… — 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
