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" 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. "

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" 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

Fun

Chance

Short

" People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge. "

" I live by fallacy. 'If I get enough nice Ikea furniture, I'll be a grown-up.' Then I catch myself. Or, 'If I get off by myself, away from the stress of modern life, I'll be OK.' Then I catch myself. "

" In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother - the plot of Choke - while privately I was caring for my own dying mother. It was torture. "

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

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

Chuck Palahniuk

Bright

Bright Future

" I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them. "

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

" When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Time

Alone

" Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves. "

" I have a lot of fans who are in the prison system, where ramen noodles are a kind of staple. Prisoners are always sending me recipes. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Noodles

Prison

" Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Coping

Mechanism

" At school I was lazy. But I started working when I was 15, washing dishes at a local truck stop restaurant. I was really, really bored with school, and I wanted to get a job as fast as I could. School was just so easy. There was just no challenge to it. "

" 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. "

" Every decade, we get a stunning collection of dynamic, heartbreaking short stories. In the past, those collections came from Barry Hannah, Mark Richard, and Thom Jones. "

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

" My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen. "

" 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. "

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

Chuck Palahniuk

Nobody

Date

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

" I thought 'Fight Club' was great as David Fincher's version. "

" 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. "

" I write nothing but contemporary romances. "

" I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing. "

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

" Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they couldn't see them. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Because

People

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

Chuck Palahniuk

Made

Cottage

" It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up. "

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

" People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. "