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Books Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
- Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture…
- There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.
- If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead…
- There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old…
- The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world…
- This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the…
- My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated…
- My books are all fantastically sentimental.
- The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my…
- I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there.
- My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.
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