When the 'Fight Club' movie was going into production, I quit my job so I could write full-time. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I usually write in my kitchen, which is a large, octagonal room that looks into woods - three big windows look out… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version. — 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
I think it's more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Don't write about your most emotionally charged moment as a learning thing. — 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
Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
What you write should entertain you and serve you first. Don't worry about maintaining anything beyond your own attention. Focus on exorcising… — 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
My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My writing process isn't a very organized thing. The actual writing part is a tiny part of my life. I often write… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I take pens and I write on the inside of my arm. When I'm with people and somebody says a really fascinating… — 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
