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
My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Skin, bones, blood and organs transplant from person to person. Even what’s inside you already, the colonies of microbes and bugs that… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level,… — 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
In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She… — 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
Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I have to have everything in my life completely fixed and perfect and cleaned up and I have to be complete with… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to worship you if you have the same problems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hangnails, as a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of… — 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
I'm always identifying some fallacy in my own life. I'm sort of making fun of myself by exploring and unpacking just why… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The pretentiousness of literature really annoys me; the way a writer is held as this sort of magical person to be revered… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I… — 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
Don’t ask me when because I don’t remember, but somewhere along the way I keep forgetting to commit suicide. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your 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
