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" With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to make an ongoing effort to consume this product and that the project is being consumed by just one person at a time. I really want to play to that strength because it's one of the few advantages books still have. "

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" My parents used to fight a lot, and I think they fought a lot at night, and they would turn the television up to hide the sound of their fighting. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Fighting

Night

Parents

" In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor. "

" I come from generations of farmers. "

" Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself. "

" I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Cause

Enemy

" We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. "

" 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. "

" I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder. "

" Masochism is a valuable job skill. "

" It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained. "

" I usually write in my kitchen, which is a large, octagonal room that looks into woods - three big windows look out into the trees. "

" My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't feel those people can be threatened or intruded upon now. But I am enormously protective of the people who are currently in my life, my existing friends and family. That is where the curtain is drawn. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything. "

" I think a lot of people saw 'Fight Club' and thought, 'Right, here's our next Che Guevara, here's our next Fidel Castro, here's someone who's going to wave the flag.' And I was like, 'No, it's just a book. And if I beat that drum, if I play that song one more time, I won't have a career.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes. "

" Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Time

Great

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

" Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy. "

" In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to serve the purpose of the line that's implied before it and the line that's implied after it. Maybe five lines have to do the work of fifty lines. "

" If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's right to an abortion, which I always thought was the core of 'Rosemary's Baby,' or the backlash against feminism which I always thought was the core to 'Stepford Wives.' "

" The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring. "

" I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or the way the world is. "