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Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

Chuck Palahniuk
Family, God, Home

If you make people laugh too much, their blood becomes - I believe it is acidic as opposed to alkaline. It changes the oxygen level in the blood, and people are likelier to pass out at that point.

Chuck Palahniuk
Believe, Oxygen, Blood
Source: www.nightmare-magazine.com

My theory is that church used to be that place. Instead of being a place where you went to look good, it was a place where you could risk going every week to look your worst.

Chuck Palahniuk
Risk, Church, Looks
"Chuck Palahnuik On "Choke"". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. September 24, 2008.

My life has been about living like a monk and looking like a priest so that people will come up to me and tell me their most appalling stories. They have to make their confession to somebody, and it might as well be me.

Chuck Palahniuk
People, Stories, Might
Source: the-talks.com

Somehow people have been sold on the idea that only professionals can entertain them, that only professionals can sing or tell jokes. And people are cut out of this creativity loop, and creativity is being limited to these large, centralized voices.

Chuck Palahniuk
Creativity, Cutting, Ideas
Source: www.charlierusso.com

Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of the moment and what people will like right now; the idea is to somehow keep yourself in the public memory so that as taste evolves it will eventually come to embrace your thing. So, it's about writing to be remembered rather than writing to be liked.

Chuck Palahniuk
Memories, Writing, Ideas
Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against the very dark subject matter, that very strange murderous plot, but use that Harlequin Romance language.

Chuck Palahniuk
Book, Writing, Dark
Source: www.pbs.org

A comedy ends with a wedding, and a tragedy ends with a funeral: you always have to juxtapose sex and death.

Chuck Palahniuk
Sex, Funeral, Tragedy
Source: the-talks.com

I think standardization is really the first step to something being commodified.

Chuck Palahniuk
Thinking, Steps, Firsts
Source: www.nightmare-magazine.com

Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet with other people, in forums from illness support groups to phone-sex hotlines, and learn what other people know best.

Chuck Palahniuk
Sex, Writing, Phones
Source: www.bookslut.com

The ultimate joke was the idea that capitalism would eat its own feces in order to make money, that would make fun of itself if capitalism thought there was a buck in it.

Chuck Palahniuk
Fun, Ideas, Order

Cults make people sing so hard for so long - because it over-oxygenates the blood and sets them up to faint.

Chuck Palahniuk
Blood, Long, People
Source: www.nightmare-magazine.com

Everyone is equal and everyone is forced to participate; you can't just be a spectator.

Chuck Palahniuk
Equal, Everyone Is Equal, Spectators
Source: the-talks.com

A certain number of people have to live their lives outdoors between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., and a certain number of people can only leave their homes between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. So basically, public life has to be lived in these shifts, in order for everyone to fit on the streets because there's just no more room for any more infrastructure, any more highways. So it polarizes the community into day people and night people, and it becomes sort of a metaphor for racism and classism.

Chuck Palahniuk
Home, Night, Order
Interview with Jeff Sartain, strangehorizons.com. October 16, 2006.

For the most part my friends can always be more entertaining than the tube ever can be.

Chuck Palahniuk
Entertaining, My Friends, Tubes
Source: www.charlierusso.com

I think we're in an age starved for genuine experiences, instead of cathartic phony experiences through the media, structured, engineered experiences. And those are the fast food, the masturbation of experience. They don't really exhaust any aspect of ourselves; they don't make us any stronger.

Chuck Palahniuk
Thinking, Media, Age
Source: www.charlierusso.com

And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.

Chuck Palahniuk
Real, Islands, People
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.

Chuck Palahniuk
Real, Writing, Acclaim
Source: www.nightmare-magazine.com

Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it’s just the opposite. After that, you’re either a liar or a fool or a villain.

Chuck Palahniuk
Mother, Liars, Believe

There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.

Chuck Palahniuk
Real, Fight Club Book, Fight Club Novel
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.38, Random House

Since we do operate in a binary world, if there's something that cannot be this or that, it drives us crazy.

Chuck Palahniuk
Crazy, World, Binary
"Chuck Palahniuk in conversation with Tom Spanbauer". Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com. May 2014.

I can manage my own pain. I can drink. I can go to the doctor and get a prescription. I can exercise. I can write a story about it. I've done it a million times! But I don't want to see the people I love tortured and suffering.

Chuck Palahniuk
Pain, Writing, Exercise
"Chuck Palahniuk in conversation with Tom Spanbauer". Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com. May 2014.

When someone walks in and you say "a six-foot-tall man," you miss the opportunity to describe what a six-foot-tall man would look like to your narrator, because how the narrator describes a six-foot-tall man says more about the narrator than about the man.

Chuck Palahniuk
Opportunity, Men, Feet
Source: www.lightspeedmagazine.com

The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of "comfort food" we expect to lull us to sleep.

Chuck Palahniuk
Book, Sleep, People
Source: www.bookslut.com

The only place where you can really surprise or shock the reader, or make someone laugh, is on the lower righthand corner - the very last panel - so as you turn the page, the payoff is in the upper lefthand panel. To pace every story so that there's a setup and a payoff at the page turn was a huge challenge; it's a part of the medium and you really have to learn what can be done in the medium.

Chuck Palahniuk
Laughing, Challenges, Pages
Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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