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" What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us. "

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" My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the next rewrite. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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" Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? "

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

" People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves. "

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

" My policy is to not read any reviews. "

" To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost. "

" People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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

" When working, my diet degrades to pizza three times a day, because I don't want to distract myself from anything. "

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

" I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about. "

" Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. "

" My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves. "

" I come from generations of farmers. "

" I don't think 'Guts' could get financed as a movie. "

" Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality. "

" 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. "

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

" Men want to make the best use of time and want to see how something can inform them and give them a stronger sense of power. "

" I've got two dogs; they're Boston terriers, and they're allowed everywhere. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a grown-up means doing every part of the larger task. "

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