I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The strength of film is its accessibility and immediacy. But the strength of books is that freedom to really depict anything you… — 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
If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I remember selling my first short story and thinking, Oh my god, I sold something for fifty dollars! That gives me the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Don't rush or force the ending. All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes. — 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
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 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
'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose. — 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 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
Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of… — 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
I have an experience with as many of my readers as possible that's really genuine. I love it when they write to… — 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
