Books Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

The writer in my dad is someone whom I've been inspired greatly by since my childhood.

— Wamiqa Gabbi

One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I'm going to write a…

— John Burnside

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.

— Anne Waldman

I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.

— Pat Conroy

My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by…

— Chuck Palahniuk

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified himself as…

— Nick Flynn

“Most of us have small, sad places somewhere in our hearts and my father was no exception. Sometimes we let our feelings escape in…

— Christopher Milne

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

— Zoe Kazan

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

— Kim Edwards

“You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never…

— Christy Hall

“Critical to my understanding of myself was that my parents may have been storytellers, but I was the writer in my family, the only…

— Cherise Wolas

My wife and I, we work together. And we wrote this book, "Dad Is Fat." And in the book, I was encouraged constantly by…

— Jim Gaffigan