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" So many of our enormous emotional crises are lived through the media. They're lived through movies; they're lived through what we watch on television - they're not actual events in our life. "

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" If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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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. "

" In my family, we can't just sit and be together. We have to be shelling peas or husking corn or something. A larger task. Some way of being with people. "

" I think my heart always goes out to men at the peak of their celebrity who checked out. There's such an odd, horrible trend in my lifetime for it - Kurt Cobain, David Foster Wallace, Alexander McQueen, Heath Ledger. "

" The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story. "

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

" 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? "

" I come from generations of farmers. "

" 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. "

" People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown. "

" My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's reader is smarter. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit. "

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

" I have a lot of money. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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" If we can prove an afterlife, then we have less pressure to make our physical life last forever. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist. "

" My parents used to fight a lot, and I think they fought a lot at night, and they would turn the television up to hide the sound of their fighting. "

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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" My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't invited to a party.' That always struck so true, and people always nod their heads when they hear that. Especially writers. "

" Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it? "

" No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close. "

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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

" Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar, below people's defenses. "