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" A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart. "
Chuck Palahniuk
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" Since September 11, 2001, the real world has become too scary for a lot of people to be with - all the time. "
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" In 'Diary,' the motto really is: 'Where Do You Get Your Inspiration?' It coaches us to be aware of our motives and not just be a reaction to the circumstances around us. "
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" I think America is just so in love with conflict. "
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" I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages. "
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" Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels? "
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" When I visit my brother in South Africa, I order things I've only seen in zoos. Little deers and kudu, all the mammals you would never think of eating. "
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" What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us. "
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" My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's reader is smarter. "
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" Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation... they're inseparable. "
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" Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer. "
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" When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place. "
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" Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a sort of glimmer of hope... but darkness wins. "
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" For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism. "
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" My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word for maybe a year, and I'll just be with people, going to parties and soaking up stories, and just sort of recharging all of my ideas. "
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" I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict. "
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" Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold. "
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" Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar, below people's defenses. "
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" I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes. "
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" I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God. "
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" We don't have friends, so we watch 'Friends' on TV. "
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" As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person. "
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" We kind of deny the stages of life. "
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" I don't know if you ever really feel like you've made it. "
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" Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer. "
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" Crap has always happened, crap is happening, and crap will continue to happen. "
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" 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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" We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings. "
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" Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself. "
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" I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves. "
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