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" I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Want
Words
Love
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" With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to make an ongoing effort to consume this product and that the project is being consumed by just one person at a time. I really want to play to that strength because it's one of the few advantages books still have. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Play
Book
You
" The first step to eternal life is you have to die. "
Chuck Palahniuk
First Step
Die
First
" We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Feel
Animals
Animal
" A film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Maintain
Audience
Certain
" There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Moment
Turns
Surprises
" Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Love
Change
Home
" When the 'Fight Club' movie was going into production, I quit my job so I could write full-time. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Quit
Job
Going
" If you don't believe what other people believe, then they'll accuse you of being nihilistic. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Accuse
You
People
" We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Trash
Special
Either
" You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Want
Real
People
" 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. "
Chuck Palahniuk
You
Motto
Inspiration
" Find out what you're afraid of and go live there. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Fear
Afraid
You
" 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
Trying
Try
Time
" Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Only
Spirit
Through
" 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. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Way
Year
Stories
" 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
Life
Death
I Am
" I think America is just so in love with conflict. "
Chuck Palahniuk
America
Conflict
Just
" Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Time
Always
Myself
" 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
Hope
Movies
Baby
" 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. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Show
People
Minds
" 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
Club
Rage
Need
" 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
Trees
Woods
Three
" Writing gave me the world. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Writing
Gave
Me
" Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet. "
Chuck Palahniuk
God
Toilet
Pet
" 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. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Little
Want
Time
" Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Characters
Kind
Death
" 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. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Train
Father
Railroad
" 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. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Time
Alone
Me
" The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Risk
Happiness
True Happiness
" So much of 'Fight Club' was a rant against fathers. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Fight
Much
Club