126 Chuck Palahniuk Quotes for You to Enjoy

Chuck Palahniuk

American Novelist

Born: Feb 21, 1962

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Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach

My books are all fantastically sentimental. Chuck Palahniuk

Books Sentimental

I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out. Chuck Palahniuk

Out Take Lot Selling Flak

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

God Cancer Our Finally Consolation Give He Sins Maybe Us

In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother - the plot of Choke - while privately I was caring for my own dying mother. It was torture. Chuck Palahniuk

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Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's right to an abortion, which I always thought was the core of 'Rosemary's Baby,' or the backlash against feminism which I always thought was the core to 'Stepford Wives.' Chuck Palahniuk

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There's a television show, 'Hoarders,' where people have those homes filled with stuff. Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything. Chuck Palahniuk

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I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears. Chuck Palahniuk

Book Care Long don't Care Check Clears dont Care

My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectly with the comic-con crowd. Chuck Palahniuk

Me Seems Crowd Perfectly Readership Comic-Con Been Shipping Publisher

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

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I come from generations of farmers. Chuck Palahniuk

Generations Come Farmers

My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is breaking down. They're conflicted by the idea that they don't know what's next. You could call it Kierkegaard's leap of faith, when you get tired of sort of reinventing yourself on a very superficial level. Chuck Palahniuk

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If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can. Chuck Palahniuk

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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

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In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor. Chuck Palahniuk

My father used to call me 'bird bones' and, well, the name fits. Chuck Palahniuk

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I'm only confrontational with my friends. Chuck Palahniuk

Only Friends Confrontational

Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer. Chuck Palahniuk

Lonely Bad Bad Thing Writer Being Thing

I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there. Chuck Palahniuk

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