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Chuck Palahniuk Quotes - Page 21

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

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

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

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

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

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 (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.86, W. W. Norton & Company

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

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

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