Writing Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

“Slang is the writer's palette of colors.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I write nothing but contemporary romances.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer.

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

Every author has to eventually write a food book.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Writing gave me the world.

— Chuck Palahniuk

My writing process isn't a very organized thing.

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

Don't write about your most emotionally charged moment as a learning thing.

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65.

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Writers should be able to fully deduct from their taxes all writing-related expenses, including alcohol, parking tickets, court judgments, fines for lewd…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really well. And…

— Chuck Palahniuk

While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps…

— Chuck Palahniuk

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

— Chuck Palahniuk

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People…

— Chuck Palahniuk

There's an old saying: 'No piece of writing is ever finished, it's just abandoned.' But my own rule is: No piece of…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I remember selling my first short story and thinking, Oh my god, I sold something for fifty dollars! That gives me the…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I can manage my own pain. I can drink. I can go to the doctor and get a prescription. I can exercise.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

So often with beginning writers, the story that they want to start with is the most important story of their life -…

— 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

As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

Once I start writing, I can't stop.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Chuck Palahniuk