The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to… — 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
It's interesting because when David Fincher was making "Fight Club," he said, "It's a romance." And it really is. Almost everything I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I am a writer and the greatest compliment I can get is to know that I've contributed language to the culture, that… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because… — 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
When a regular person gets sick, they take an aspirin. When a writer gets sick, they take notes.... — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to… — 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
The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic...… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there. — 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
When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years… — 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
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
