Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Chuck Palahniuk

Related Quotes:

" I usually write in my kitchen, which is a large, octagonal room that looks into woods - three big windows look out into the trees. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" 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. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" To be honest, I hate silence. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" My grandfather was hit over the head by a crane boom in Seattle. Some of the family claimed he was never a violent, crazy person before that. Some say he was. It depends who you believe. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" My parents divorced about the same time the movie 'The Parent Trap' came out, about two twins at camp who scheme to get their parents back together. I had that same fantasy. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" I've got two dogs; they're Boston terriers, and they're allowed everywhere. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" 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

" 'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" I think a lot of people saw 'Fight Club' and thought, 'Right, here's our next Che Guevara, here's our next Fidel Castro, here's someone who's going to wave the flag.' And I was like, 'No, it's just a book. And if I beat that drum, if I play that song one more time, I won't have a career.' "

Chuck Palahniuk

" 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. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" 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. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Chuck Palahniuk

" My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't invited to a party.' That always struck so true, and people always nod their heads when they hear that. Especially writers. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" 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. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Chuck Palahniuk

" Sometimes, like in 'Invisible Monsters,' I get too out of control, and instead of a plot point every chapter, I want a plot point in every sentence. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" 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. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Chuck Palahniuk

" 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