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On a night without moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything.

On a night without moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything.

Chuck Palahniuk
Stars, Moon, Night
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

So often with beginning writers, the story that they want to start with is the most important story of their life - my molestation, my this, my horrible drug addiction - they want to tell that most important story, and they don't have the skills to tell it yet, so it ends up becoming a comedy. A powerful story told poorly becomes funny, it just makes people laugh behind their hands.

Chuck Palahniuk
Powerful, Hands, Skills
Source: www.buzzfeed.com

I don't remember the hotel rooms or the airports but I always remember the events.

Chuck Palahniuk
Airports, Events, Rooms
Source: content.time.com

You humiliate a rich person and they're still rich. You humiliate a brilliant person and they're still smart. A person who is well connected is still the king of England. But if you humiliate a young person, you take away the only form of power they have.

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

The weather today is an increasing trend towards denial.

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

More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.

Chuck Palahniuk
Cry, Hardest, I Can
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.79, Random House

"Getting fired," Tyler says, "is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives."

Chuck Palahniuk
Water, Way, Quitting
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.83, Random House

Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.

Chuck Palahniuk
Happened, Happenings
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Haunted”, p.59, Random House

I have a secret goal with my editor - he has asthma and uses his inhaler, and after I send him a new manuscript, I'll have his assistant phone me and tell me how many times he had to get his inhaler out while reading a draft. It's my secret laugh meter.

Chuck Palahniuk
Reading, Phones, Editors
Source: www.writersdigest.com

My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community of people - so that they find themselves accepted back by a world that they kind of fled from.

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

The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing, entertaining, fun story to write and learn your writing chops with the least important things before you start applying them to the most important things.

Chuck Palahniuk
Fun, Writing, Important
Source: www.buzzfeed.com

What we think of as Halloween is really the product of media barons, city mayors, and candy-makers. You know, before the 1920s, Halloween was really a terrible, terrible night.

Chuck Palahniuk
Halloween, Night, Thinking
Source: www.lightspeedmagazine.com

That guy behind me on the airplane? He's been kicking my seat because he hates me. He's kicking my seat because he hates me and I'm gonna kill him. When we get off this plane, I'm gonna make eye contact. I'm gonna kill that guy. And all of that is just stuff in my head, but it's good to get rid of that stuff.

Chuck Palahniuk
Hate, Airplane, Eye
Source: www.pbs.org

We're so structured and micromanaged, this isn't a world anymore, it's a damn cruise ship.

Chuck Palahniuk
World, Ships, Cruise
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

It’s a fun playtime. Please, don’t kill it with big words.

Chuck Palahniuk
Fun, Bigs, Please
"Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.

Chuck Palahniuk
Gun, Mouths, Wonder
Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

About my boss, Tyler tells me, if I'm really angry, I should go to the post office and fill out a change-of-address card and have all his mail forwarded to Rugby, North Dakota.

Chuck Palahniuk
Office, Boss, Cards
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.68, W. W. Norton & Company

I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.

Chuck Palahniuk
Monsters, Invisible, Incapable

His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers.

Chuck Palahniuk
Lonely, Truck, Saliva
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Tell-All”, p.16, Random House

I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.

Chuck Palahniuk
Toxic Waste, God's Creation, Toxic

You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.

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

Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?

Chuck Palahniuk
Mouths, Please, Chainsaw
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.165, W. W. Norton & Company

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

Chuck Palahniuk
Relationship, Death, Special You
"Survivor". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, February 17, 1999.

These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics.

Chuck Palahniuk
Focus, Distraction
"Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 2002.

I tagged a first-timer one night at fight club. That Saturday night, a young guy with an angel’s face came to his first fight club, and I tagged him for a fight. That’s the rule. If it’s your first night in fight club, you have to fight. I knew that so I tagged him because the insomnia was on again, and I was in a mood to destroy something beautiful.

Chuck Palahniuk
Beautiful, Angel, Fighting
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.122, W. W. Norton & Company

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