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

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

Chuck Palahniuk
Writing, Connections, Done

I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there.

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

I am a writer and the greatest compliment I can get is to know that I've contributed language to the culture, that I've defined something, given it a name. So I think that is one of the great things a writer can do.

Chuck Palahniuk
Thinking, Names, Culture
Source: www.pbs.org

You'll need to suffer to make any real art.

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

Everybody's still miserable in the same way they've always been miserable, and more and more of my friends - especially my male friends - find themselves taking anti-anxiety, psychotropic drugs. It seems like everybody I know is wondering if they're really who they are, or once the prescription runs out, will they become someone different?

Chuck Palahniuk
Running, Anxiety, Drug
Source: www.buzzfeed.com

That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you’d never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you’d never need more. That if enough people loved you, you’d stop needing love.

Chuck Palahniuk
Sleep, People, Want
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Pain, Fall
"Haunted". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 3, 2005.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

Chuck Palahniuk
Mean, Acceptance, Superstitions

The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit to anything.

Chuck Palahniuk
Girl, Confused, Waste
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.61, W. W. Norton & Company

I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.

Chuck Palahniuk
World, Telephones, Outside World

Jump way back to one time, Evie and me did this fashion shoot in a junk yard, in a slaughterhouse, in a mortuary. We'd go anywhere to look good by comparison, and what I realize is mostly what I hate about Evie is the fact that she's so vain and stupid and needy. But what I hate most is how she's just like me. What I really hate is me so I hate pretty much everybody.

Chuck Palahniuk
Fashion, Hate, Stupid
Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.145, W. W. Norton & Company

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

Chuck Palahniuk
Cancer, Giving, Sin

Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.

Chuck Palahniuk
Giving Up, Book, White
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.43, Random House

What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God. If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God? What you end up doing is you spend your life searching for a father and God. What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn't like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that can happen.

Chuck Palahniuk
Christian, Father, Hate

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

Chuck Palahniuk
Tragedy, Evolution, Natural

How can you possibly believe he really loves you?” Miss Sneezy looks from the Mother to the Saint to Mr. Whittier’s hand.“You have no choice,” Mr. Whittier tells her. “If you need to be loved.

Chuck Palahniuk
Mother, Believe, Love You

Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.

Chuck Palahniuk
Today, Sun, Come Up

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

Chuck Palahniuk
History, Invisible Monsters, Remembered
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.103, Random House

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

Chuck Palahniuk
Happiness, Bad Day, Cutting
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.86, W. W. Norton & Company

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

Chuck Palahniuk
Perfection, Effort, Moments
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.33, Random House

The career of a movie star consists of helping everyone else forget their troubles. Using charm and beauty and good cheer to make life look easy.

Chuck Palahniuk
Stars, Cheer, Careers
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Tell-All”, p.23, Random House

There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.

Chuck Palahniuk
Dark, Joy, Secret
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.139, W. W. Norton & Company

For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks overnight was nothing less than fair game for everybody to nail. Men or women, anybody bent over had no way of knowing who was doing the ram job, and this was the real reason you never wanted to end up here unless you had a family member or a friend who'd stand with you the whole time. To protect you. To watch your ass, for real.

Chuck Palahniuk
Jobs, Real, Men
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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.

Chuck Palahniuk
Book, Writing, Competition
"Chuck Palahniuk: 'I wrote the book while my mother was dying of cancer'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. September 03, 2011.

...no way could I fall in love. I just couldn't go there yet. Settle for less. I didn't want to process through anything. I didn't want to pick up any pieces. Lower my expectations.

Chuck Palahniuk
Falling In Love, Expectations, Pieces
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company

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