Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.
Chuck Palahniuk

Start, Once, Talking

Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by.
Chuck Palahniuk

Nobody, Date, Reviled

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.
Chuck Palahniuk

Politics, American, Lifetime

There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.
Chuck Palahniuk

Read, Books, Somehow

There will always be an underground.
Chuck Palahniuk

We kind of deny the stages of life.
Chuck Palahniuk

Life, Deny, Stages

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?
Chuck Palahniuk

Jesus, Written, Gospels

You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.
Chuck Palahniuk

Tell, Story, Incredible

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.
Chuck Palahniuk

Time, Forget, Trying

Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.
Chuck Palahniuk

Feelings, Living, Others

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.
Chuck Palahniuk

Age, Best, Through

I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.
Chuck Palahniuk

Money, Great, Fight

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

Best, Try, Difficult

If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.
Chuck Palahniuk

Hope, Dark, Start

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?
Chuck Palahniuk

Great, Freedom, American

I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.
Chuck Palahniuk

God, Long, Enough

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.
Chuck Palahniuk

Find, Almost, Stuff

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.
Chuck Palahniuk

History, Movies, Between

My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.
Chuck Palahniuk

Future, Long, Happen

People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that.
Chuck Palahniuk

Time, Give, Wanted

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.
Chuck Palahniuk

Best, Happen, Free

What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.
Chuck Palahniuk

Children, Book, Trying

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.
Chuck Palahniuk

Best, Real, Sense

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Nationality: American

Born: February 21, 1961

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