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" When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month. "
Chuck Palahniuk
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She
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories. "
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" The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story. "
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" The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime. "
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" Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. "
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" If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better movie. "
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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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I think that I am responsible for the death of thousands of things and for the misery of thousands of people, just through the things that I buy and how I live my life, and these are not things that ever deserved to die. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves. "
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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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" What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises. "
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" When working, my diet degrades to pizza three times a day, because I don't want to distract myself from anything. "
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" The pretentiousness of literature really annoys me; the way a writer is held as this sort of magical person to be revered on the stage. Everything I do on tour is to try and destroy that pretense. "
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" Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? "
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" If we can prove an afterlife, then we have less pressure to make our physical life last forever. "
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" When I visit my brother in South Africa, I order things I've only seen in zoos. Little deers and kudu, all the mammals you would never think of eating. "
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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. "
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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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" Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars. "
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