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" If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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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. "

" My writing process isn't a very organized thing. "

" Since September 11, 2001, the real world has become too scary for a lot of people to be with - all the time. "

" People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown. "

" 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. "

" There's a television show, 'Hoarders,' where people have those homes filled with stuff. Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything. "

" Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them. "

" My father worked for the railroad, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal food from the boxcars. One year we stole a case of butterscotch pudding that was for export to Israel. It took us years to get through. "

" Few things in life seem more sexy than a banned book. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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

" Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable. "

" I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65. "

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

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

" Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy. "

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

" I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing. "

" 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. "

" My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way. "

" 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.' "

" Men want to make the best use of time and want to see how something can inform them and give them a stronger sense of power. "

" Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself. "

" 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. "

" Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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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. "

" We kind of deny the stages of life. "

" I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears. "

" I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos. "

" You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless. "