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" My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves. "

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" In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to serve the purpose of the line that's implied before it and the line that's implied after it. Maybe five lines have to do the work of fifty lines. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Purpose

Words

Work

" Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur. "

" While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps create a consistent mood for each book. "

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

" I thought 'Fight Club' was great as David Fincher's version. "

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

" I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write. "

" Every decade, we get a stunning collection of dynamic, heartbreaking short stories. In the past, those collections came from Barry Hannah, Mark Richard, and Thom Jones. "

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

" If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up? "

" We kind of deny the stages of life. "

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

" The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime. "

Chuck Palahniuk

American

Been

" 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. "

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

" I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about. "

" 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. "

" My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectly with the comic-con crowd. "

" The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm shocked by the deeply personal things I've put into books without realizing it. "

" 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. "

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

Chuck Palahniuk

Since

" 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.' "

Chuck Palahniuk

Say

Tell

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

Chuck Palahniuk

You

Incredible

" Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer. "

" Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head. "

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

" The pretentiousness of literature really annoys me; the way a writer is held as this sort of magical person to be revered on the stage. Everything I do on tour is to try and destroy that pretense. "

" Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed. "

" I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears. "

" 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. "