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" 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

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" 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.' "

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" Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? "

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" It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget. "

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

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" 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.' "

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" In my family, we can't just sit and be together. We have to be shelling peas or husking corn or something. A larger task. Some way of being with people. "

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" Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood. "

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" People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge. "

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" I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power. "

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" Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves. "

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" No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close. "

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" The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other. "

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" 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. "

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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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" Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels? "

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" You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form. "

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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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" I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can explore it through a metaphor and make a kind of funny, dark story about it, and in doing so, really exhaust and research as many aspects of it as I can imagine. And in a way, that does give me some closure. "

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" There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me. "

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

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" A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music. "

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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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" People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves. "

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" Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education. "

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" Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really well. And this is much better than setting fires, so keep it up.' That made me a writer. "

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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 write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there. "

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

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" My books didn't fit a marketing niche. "

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" I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages. "

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