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" Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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" I think that I am responsible for the death of thousands of things and for the misery of thousands of people, just through the things that I buy and how I live my life, and these are not things that ever deserved to die. "

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" Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet. "

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" Writing gave me the world. "

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" If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering. "

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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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" My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people. "

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" I live by fallacy. 'If I get enough nice Ikea furniture, I'll be a grown-up.' Then I catch myself. Or, 'If I get off by myself, away from the stress of modern life, I'll be OK.' Then I catch myself. "

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" The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone. "

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" My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is breaking down. They're conflicted by the idea that they don't know what's next. You could call it Kierkegaard's leap of faith, when you get tired of sort of reinventing yourself on a very superficial level. "

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" I don't know if you ever really feel like you've made it. "

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" At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.' "

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