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" My grandfather was hit over the head by a crane boom in Seattle. Some of the family claimed he was never a violent, crazy person before that. Some say he was. It depends who you believe. "

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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

" If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can. "

" 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. "

" Writing gave me the world. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Writing

Gave

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

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

" We kind of deny the stages of life. "

" There will always be an underground. "

" Men want to make the best use of time and want to see how something can inform them and give them a stronger sense of power. "

" 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. "

" We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. "

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

" We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior. "

" To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

Chuck Palahniuk

Book

Seem

" Movie brawls tend to be bloodless and quick. "

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

" I'm only confrontational with my friends. "

" Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken. "

" It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up. "

" Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them. "

" I never think I'm making fun of my culture. In fact I'm making fun of myself, because I catch myself doing some very stupid things. "

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

" To be honest, I hate silence. "

" Find out what you're afraid of and go live there. "

" 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. "