If you don't believe what other people believe, then they'll accuse you of being nihilistic. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The best thing about getting a flu shot is that you never again need to wash your hands. That's how I see… — 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
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
My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as 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… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My grandfather was hit over the head by a crane boom in Seattle. Some of the family claimed he was never a… — 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
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
When I visit my brother in South Africa, I order things I've only seen in zoos. Little deers and kudu, all the… — 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
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
Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' -… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can… — 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
I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative… — 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
I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In almost all my work, I try to re-invent Christian images and stories and themes. You'd be amazed by the letters I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In 'Diary,' the motto really is: 'Where Do You Get Your Inspiration?' It coaches us to be aware of our motives and… — 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
