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" The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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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. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's right to an abortion, which I always thought was the core of 'Rosemary's Baby,' or the backlash against feminism which I always thought was the core to 'Stepford Wives.' "

Chuck Palahniuk

" Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood. "

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" I think it's more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who already read. There's a reason men don't read, and it's because books don't serve men. It's time we produce books that serve men. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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

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" Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education. "

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" The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" 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

" If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best. "

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" I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet. "

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" I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them. "

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

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" I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes. "

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" People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" 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

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

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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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" If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" 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. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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

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

Chuck Palahniuk

" Sometimes, like in 'Invisible Monsters,' I get too out of control, and instead of a plot point every chapter, I want a plot point in every sentence. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" 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. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" 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? "

Chuck Palahniuk

" I used to work as a volunteer in a hospice, but I don't have any nursing skills or cooking skills or anything, so I was what they call an escort. I would take people to the support groups every night, and I would have to sit sort of on the sidelines so I could take them back to hospice at the end of the meeting. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" The answer is there is no answer. "

Chuck Palahniuk