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" 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. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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" Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word for maybe a year, and I'll just be with people, going to parties and soaking up stories, and just sort of recharging all of my ideas. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Chuck Palahniuk

" 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. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Chuck Palahniuk

" Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" 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. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Chuck Palahniuk

" When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years - they laughed; they didn't have any kind of shock reaction. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" In 'Diary,' the motto really is: 'Where Do You Get Your Inspiration?' It coaches us to be aware of our motives and not just be a reaction to the circumstances around us. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" I write nothing but contemporary romances. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" 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. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Chuck Palahniuk

" There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Chuck Palahniuk

" 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. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" 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. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can explore it through a metaphor and make a kind of funny, dark story about it, and in doing so, really exhaust and research as many aspects of it as I can imagine. And in a way, that does give me some closure. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" We don't have friends, so we watch 'Friends' on TV. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by. "

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

" I have a lot of money. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" 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? "

Chuck Palahniuk

" My father worked for the railroad, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal food from the boxcars. One year we stole a case of butterscotch pudding that was for export to Israel. It took us years to get through. "

Chuck Palahniuk