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" While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps create a consistent mood for each book. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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Been

" My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel. "

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

" Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking. "

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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" For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness of hippies. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Sundays tend to be a day where just I do nothing but visit people. It's kind of like trick-or-treating. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Day

Nothing

" 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. "

" At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.' "

Chuck Palahniuk

May

Die

" I don't know if you ever really feel like you've made it. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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Know

" A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine. "

Chuck Palahniuk

You

Story

" The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. "

" I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely. "

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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Myself

" 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. "

" The answer is there is no answer. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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

" 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. "

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

" My goal is never to make fun of religion. "

" 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. "

" I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos. "