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" You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk

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" You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. "

" I think America is just so in love with conflict. "

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

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" You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form. "

Chuck Palahniuk

You

Incredible

" I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God. "

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" Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them. "

" 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

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People

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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. "