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" One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their own developmental stages and recognise themselves and undo a lot of things they decided. "

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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. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Circumstances

Love

Idiot

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

" My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories. "

" When the 'Fight Club' movie was going into production, I quit my job so I could write full-time. "

" What we don't understand we can make mean anything. "

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

Chuck Palahniuk

Cause

Enemy

" I don't know if you ever really feel like you've made it. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Made

Know

" There will always be an underground. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. "

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

" I write nothing but contemporary romances. "

" My books are all fantastically sentimental. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Books

Sentimental

" 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. "

" We kind of deny the stages of life. "

" I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Child

Lucky

" You realize you have no control over how you're perceived. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable. "

" 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. "

" I usually write in my kitchen, which is a large, octagonal room that looks into woods - three big windows look out into the trees. "

" I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or the way the world is. "

" If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't. "

" The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. "

" Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy. "

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