Turns Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.

— Chuck Palahniuk

If I turn up suicided in the morning, it was murder.

— Chuck Palahniuk

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

— Chuck Palahniuk

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk.

— Chuck Palahniuk

More and more we are taught something throughout our growing up, our education, and continuously, no matter how much we believe in…

— Chuck Palahniuk

With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

With my eyes closed, I ask if she knows how this will all turn out. "Long-term or short-term?" she asks. Both. "Long-term,"…

— Chuck Palahniuk

You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours…

— Chuck Palahniuk

This deluded little rube who really thought the future would be any better. If you just worked hard enough. If you just…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

It only takes one mistake,' the Dan Banyan guy says, 'and nothing else you ever do will matter.' With his empty hand,…

— Chuck Palahniuk