You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the… — 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
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
“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 Copy Share Image
“That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can’t control… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more… — 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 try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to make an ongoing effort… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Alternating the thoughtful task of writing with the mindless work of laundry or dish washing will give you the breaks you need… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly,… — 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
Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really well. And… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It is a hundred-year-old witch book, bound in human skin and probably written in ancient cum...YOU lick it! — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise… — 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
“Branch Bacardi, star of The Da Vinci Load, To Drill a Mockingbird, The Postman Always Cums Twice, Chitty Chitty Gang Bang, The Twilight Bone,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Every unkind remark or crude gesture by others is a blessing, an opportunity to exercise our own capacity to forgive.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Nuestro deber es enseñar a esos hombres y mujeres la libertad a través de la esclavitud; y el coraje a través del miedo.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
