Writer Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

Once I start writing, I can't stop.

— Chuck Palahniuk

A writer’s job is to cultivate what can go wrong.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Wait- there was a book?”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Writing gave me the world.

— Chuck Palahniuk

My writing process isn't a very organized thing.

— Chuck Palahniuk

My books are all fantastically sentimental.

— Chuck Palahniuk

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Writing is like sex, if it's difficult you're not doing it right.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there.

— Chuck Palahniuk

they should let some people into the library by prescription only

— Chuck Palahniuk

As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.

— Chuck Palahniuk

When a regular person gets sick, they take an aspirin. When a writer gets sick, they take notes…

— Chuck Palahniuk

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“That's the worst aspect of being a writer: managing plausibility.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Why do the lives of writers seem so... train-wrecky?

— Chuck Palahniuk

My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The best fiction rises – yes, like a phoenix – out of the ashes of people’s sad, true disasters. We write in…

— Chuck Palahniuk

My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The most I can ever do is write things down. To remember them. The details. To honor them in some way.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes, like in 'Invisible Monsters,' I get too out of control, and instead of a plot point every chapter, I want a…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I…

— Chuck Palahniuk

A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

My writing has to excite people and depict or include their experiences. That's part of my process - to go out and…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Writing an honest blog is how you unlive your life.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there.

— Chuck Palahniuk