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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. "

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" The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives. "

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" Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer. "

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" So much of 'Fight Club' was a rant against fathers. "

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

" Every woman is just a different kind of problem. "

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

" Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves. "

" Every author has to eventually write a food book. "

" Movie brawls tend to be bloodless and quick. "

" Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished. "

" You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you. "

" 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. "

" 'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid. "

" I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around. "

" My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is breaking down. They're conflicted by the idea that they don't know what's next. You could call it Kierkegaard's leap of faith, when you get tired of sort of reinventing yourself on a very superficial level. "

" If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person? "

" 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. "

" David Fincher is a genius. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Genius

David

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

" A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. "

" 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. "

" Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation... they're inseparable. "

" You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. "

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

" My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl. "

" You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless. "

" More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Really

Myself

" 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. "

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

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