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

Chuck Palahniuk

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" Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy. "

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

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" Sundays tend to be a day where just I do nothing but visit people. It's kind of like trick-or-treating. "

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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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" If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution. "

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" Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold. "

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" I haven't shoplifted since I was 13. "

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" If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible. "

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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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" In almost all my work, I try to re-invent Christian images and stories and themes. You'd be amazed by the letters I get from young Christians who recognise this and enjoy it. "

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" Why do the lives of writers seem so... train-wrecky? "

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" 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. "

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

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

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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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" We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax. "

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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. "

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

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" My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is breaking down. They're conflicted by the idea that they don't know what's next. You could call it Kierkegaard's leap of faith, when you get tired of sort of reinventing yourself on a very superficial level. "

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" I live by fallacy. 'If I get enough nice Ikea furniture, I'll be a grown-up.' Then I catch myself. Or, 'If I get off by myself, away from the stress of modern life, I'll be OK.' Then I catch myself. "

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