No matter how much I try and hide this, bit by bit, I start to fall apart. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Trying the way we do every time we look in a mirror to figure out exactly who that person is. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I try to get centered: Watching white moon face The stars never feel anger Blah, blah, blah, the end — 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 want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Ultimately, everyone is acting out of what they feel is the best choice. In a way, they're all trying to improve the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That… — 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
I know that when a supersexy older girl with hips and breasts and nice hair wants to take off your glasses and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My writing has to excite people and depict or include their experiences. That's part of my process - to go out and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane… — 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
