We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them. — 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 bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Don’t quote me on any of this. It’s been a long time since I’ve been tested” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I loathe the kind of game-show context in which so much of our lives is determined: proving my memory and mental skills… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Brandy says, "The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The best fiction rises – yes, like a phoenix – out of the ashes of people’s sad, true disasters. We write in… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Overrun with Goths wearing sandals and soaking lentils at home, the future I wanted is gone. The future I was promised. Everything… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Jump way back to one time, Evie and me did this fashion shoot in a junk yard, in a slaughterhouse, in a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“This whole time, I was calm. I was the picture of calm. I never, never panicked. I saw my blood and snot… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think. None of us ever considered what life would… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“It’s not a big deal, the way Dr. Marshall sees it. We do it every day. Kill the unborn to save the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“You melt and swell at that moment. For that moment, nothing matters. Look up at the stars and you're gone. Not your… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. (Narrator)” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“If you can wake up in a different place. If you can wake up in a different time. Why can’t you wake… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We went sailing one time, and he wore a Speedo, and any smart woman should know that means bisexual at least. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“When you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trash can, then we'll figure out who you're going to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person? — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you worry about disaster all the time, that's what you're going to get. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“He can't live with knowing the future and not being able to save anyone.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The future is not a good place to start lying and cheating all over again.” — chuck palahniuk Copy Share Image
Some little part of themselves for someone in the future to discover. Maybe a thought. We were here. We built this. A… — 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
