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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

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" 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. "

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" For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism. "

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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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" A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart. "

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" I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes. "

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" If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best. "

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" I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing. "

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" When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years - they laughed; they didn't have any kind of shock reaction. "

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" I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them. "

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" That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways. "

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" I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them. "

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" I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out. "

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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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" What we don't understand we can make mean anything. "

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" People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens. "

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" '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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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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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" Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they couldn't see them. "

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