You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way. — 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
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 Copy Share Image
Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
More and more we are taught something throughout our growing up, our education, and continuously, no matter how much we believe in… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The only place where you can really surprise or shock the reader, or make someone laugh, is on the lower righthand corner… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
This deluded little rube who really thought the future would be any better. If you just worked hard enough. If you just… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
This is why I loved the support groups so much, if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It only takes one mistake,' the Dan Banyan guy says, 'and nothing else you ever do will matter.' With his empty hand,… — 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
