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

Chuck Palahniuk

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" Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief. "

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" Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation... they're inseparable. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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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'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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" If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better movie. "

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" I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves. "

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" Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away. "

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" Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality. "

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" I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart. "

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" Writing gave me the world. "

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" Few things in life seem more sexy than a banned book. "

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" Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself. "

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" My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen. "

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" Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking. "

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" I think America is just so in love with conflict. "

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" I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65. "

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" The first step to eternal life is you have to die. "

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

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" The best thing about getting a flu shot is that you never again need to wash your hands. That's how I see it. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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

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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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" Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more. "

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

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" Movie brawls tend to be bloodless and quick. "

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" Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished. "

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