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" Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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

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" A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music. "

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" I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case. "

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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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" I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power. "

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" I don't think 'Guts' could get financed as a movie. "

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" Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished. "

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" Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it? "

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" A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. "

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" We kind of deny the stages of life. "

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" Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit. "

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" In almost all my work, I try to re-invent Christian images and stories and themes. You'd be amazed by the letters I get from young Christians who recognise this and enjoy it. "

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" 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. "

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" Masochism is a valuable job skill. "

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" I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict. "

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" The first step to eternal life is you have to die. "

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" I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience. "

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

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" My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectly with the comic-con crowd. "

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" As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves. "

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