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List of Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 943 inspiring quotes by Chuck Palahniuk.

About Chuck Palahniuk

  • Born: February 21, 1962
  • Occupation: Novelist
    • I'm really glad that i spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.
    Greatest Treasure People Twenties
    Every character sees the world through a framework of education and experience that they're proud experts about. to write a character, find out what they know best, and then you'll know how they'll describe a "hot day." or a "pretty girl."
    Girl Writing Character
    It's interesting because when david fincher was making "fight club," he said, "it's a romance." and it really is. almost everything i ever write is just a romance. and that needed to be sort of pointed up at the end of "fight club." the film has a very different ending than the book does.
    Book Writing Fighting
    I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there.
    Writing Way Presenting
    Ultimately, everyone is acting out of what they feel is the best choice. in a way, they're all trying to improve the world. and i think that those basic choices make the world a better place.
    Thinking Choices Trying
    Abortion occurs so frequently in my stories. abortion sort of synthesizes both sex and death. to have sex and death placed as close to one another as possible is always a goal of mine.
    Sex Goal Abortion
    Everybody's still miserable in the same way they've always been miserable, and more and more of my friends - especially my male friends - find themselves taking anti-anxiety, psychotropic drugs. it seems like everybody i know is wondering if they're really who they are, or once the prescription runs out, will they become someone different?
    Running Anxiety Drug
    The only place where you can really surprise or shock the reader, or make someone laugh, is on the lower righthand corner - the very last panel - so as you turn the page, the payoff is in the upper lefthand panel. to pace every story so that there's a setup and a payoff at the page turn was a huge challenge; it's a part of the medium and you really have to learn what can be done in the medium.
    Laughing Challenges Pages
    I remember selling my first short story and thinking, oh my god, i sold something for fifty dollars! that gives me the authority to say i'm a writer and to actually write more things! it legitimized the activity.
    Writing Thinking Giving
    I can manage my own pain. i can drink. i can go to the doctor and get a prescription. i can exercise. i can write a story about it. i've done it a million times! but i don't want to see the people i love tortured and suffering.
    Pain Writing Exercise
    Since we do operate in a binary world, if there's something that cannot be this or that, it drives us crazy.
    Crazy World Binary
    My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic.
    Book Break Through People
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