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" Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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" My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the next rewrite. "

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" It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up. "

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" Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves. "

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" In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor. "

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" Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur. "

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" We kind of deny the stages of life. "

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" Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's right to an abortion, which I always thought was the core of 'Rosemary's Baby,' or the backlash against feminism which I always thought was the core to 'Stepford Wives.' "

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" When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.' "

Chuck Palahniuk

" The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't feel those people can be threatened or intruded upon now. But I am enormously protective of the people who are currently in my life, my existing friends and family. That is where the curtain is drawn. "

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" You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you. "

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" My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl. "

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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. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" A film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. "

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" When the 'Fight Club' movie was going into production, I quit my job so I could write full-time. "

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" I just don't want to die without a few scars. "

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" Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels? "

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" Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? "

Chuck Palahniuk

" Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around. "

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" I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken. "

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" I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you. "

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" The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. "

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" I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience. "

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" I have a lot of money. "

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" I get a lot of letters from women who insist that 'Fight Club' is not just a guy thing. They insist that women have the same rage and need the same outlet. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story. "

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