I'm working harder than I have ever worked in my entire life, but what the hell, my life is my job now,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, there was no way I'd write a sex scene. That just seemed impossible. That's why in "Fight… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
To a certain extent everybody has a certain sort of way of being a persona that they learn how to be when… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at… — 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
In my family, we can't just sit and be together. We have to be shelling peas or husking corn or something. A… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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
If you haven't already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.In… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Everybody's still miserable in the same way they've always been miserable, and more and more of my friends - especially my male… — 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
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
Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In 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 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
