The one thing I cannot stand is when I do interviews, when I interview people, and I listen to the tapes and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Since September 11, 2001, the real world has become too scary for a lot of people to be with - all the time. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Every character sees the world through a framework of education and experience that they're proud experts about. To write a character, find… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We're so structured and micromanaged, this isn't a world anymore, it's a damn cruise ship. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of this world.... I am the toxic waste by-product of God's creation. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . . — 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
You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every… — 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
And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people,… — 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
I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize… — 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
