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My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories.


Chuck Palahniuk

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CHUCK PALAHNIUK A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart."
— Chuck Palahniuk, ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The only alternative to making mistakes is for someone to make all your decisions for you, in which ...
GRACE LLEWELLYN I don't want to give advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and lear...
FIONA APPLE And the worms make great gifts for your friends. Especially if they're fishermen.
AL MILLER It is your character, and your character alone, that will make your life happy or unhappy. That is a...
RANDOM HOUSE My son, be worthy of your noble name, worthily borne by your ancestors for over five hundred years. ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes ...
FIONA APPLE Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break...
NEIL GAIMAN My advice is to make acting your second career choice.
AMBER TAMBLYN At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have lef...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Now go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. B...
NEIL GAIMAN Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.
SOURCE UNKNOWN You may perform poorly, but your "poorly" may not be as "badly" as others may say it is. Your "poorl...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The hard fact of friendship is that you need to make time for new friends by first stripping out the...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember—just lie.
KATHRYN STOCKETT Absolutely believe in your today's ideas for they have the potentials to make your tomorrow great.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Whatever job you have today, learn to appreciate the fact that you have one. Make your work meaningf...
MAICHEE SUMMER We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mista...
STEVE MARABOLI You have considerable choice in how you end your fiction. For all stories, the basic rule is the sam...
NANCY KRESS Accept responsibilities for all your actions. Learn from your past and your mistakes.
JAACHYNMA N.E. AGU best friends are always going to pick you up when your down, make you happy when your sad, and have ...
ANISA M It's great living with your best friends.
CAMERON DALLAS At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bi...
ANGIE THOMAS Don't regret your mistakes. You'll always make mistakes. The better you are, the less mistak...
JAMES ALTUCHER Today, spend a little time cultivating relationships offline. Never forget that everybody isn't on s...
GERMANY KENT If you are out there, you have fans. You have a champion. Organize these champions. You probably kno...
JAMISON STAFFORD Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unh...
CATHERINE DRINKER BOWEN Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unh...
CATHERINE BOWEN Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unh...
CATHERINE DRINKER BOWEN The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep m...
VIRAT KOHLI Let go of the mistakes and the sins of others. You'll have plenty of time to make your own mistakes,...
C. JOYBELL C. Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.
RALPH B. PERRY When you choose your life, ignore people, when you make it in life, remember some friends, when you ...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Trust yourself. Make sure your mistakes are your own, not somebody else’s.
JEFFREY FRY Ghost stories and Sherlock Holmes mysteries were great. And I had a major soft spot for those 'C...
RANSOM RIGGS The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.
SCOTT ALEXANDER The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.
SCOTT ALEXANDER Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.
TED NUGENT The best, very best scammers will always ask for your advice. This is their favorite technique. It m...
JAMES ALTUCHER I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my frie...
TAYLOR SWIFT He doesn’t have to love your CD collection. He doesn’t have to love your shoes. But any good, ma...
GREG BEHRENDT Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.
CHRIS BRADFORD Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
JACQUES DELILLE Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.
ELYN SAKS Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with im...
STEVE JOBS Your attitude can either be your best friend who has your best interest at heart or your worst enemy...
STEPHANIE LAHART What is your advice to young writers?”
“Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI If you don't know where you make your mistakes, that's your worst mistake: not knowing where...
MEEK MILL Your preparer can represent you in court and it is in their best interest to make sure they do so as...
DOUG NOGAMI True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will...
SETH BROWN Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice. [Sp., No adventures mucho tu riqueza.]
DON JUAN MANUEL Beware of your friends that are sanguine in nature,for they can make your open secrets,to become mar...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
PATRICIA CLARKSON Choose your FRIENDS wisely...because they can enhance YOUR LIFE by what they BE, DO, and HAVE.
LORRIN L. LEE Choose your friends carefully but don’t worry about your enemies, they will choose you
CARL HENEGAN Your intelligence enhances your ability to think and recollect, dream and set realistic goals. Your ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Today you will choose your factions. Until this point you have followed your parents’ paths, your ...
VERONICA ROTH You study all your life, you work really hard to do your best work onstage and onscreen, and then yo...
ALEX ROCCO I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, ...
NEIL GAIMAN Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.
JOHN WOODEN Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their c...
ANON. Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their c...
ANONYMOUS Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their c...
ANONYMOUS Choose your friends, don't let them Choose you
STEPHEN .R. ANYAEGBU Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.
THOMAS WOLFE Choose joyful abundance in your heart and be unbounded, free, and relaxed. Be relentless with your c...
AMY LEIGH MERCREE Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.
THOMAS S. MONSON You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure prepara...
HARRIET MARTINEAU The best adventures in life is in the present. Seize the present and make it great adventure.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Great struggles make for great stories.
SANOBER KHAN Keep your excuses for bigger mistakes and make sure the time will never come when you need to use th...
VINOD WAKKCHARE You know what? Yesterday will never come back. Close your eyes and see something! You shall neither ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Make everything in your life enjoyable, for if acquiring all the material is your goal in life, then...
NISHAL MAHARAJ You do more for your kids than your parents did for you. My responsibility is to make [my daughter's...
JEFF PROZNIK You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
GARY OLDMAN Life is all about making choices. Always do your best to make the right ones and always do your best...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.
TIM FARGO My advice for people who travel and want to share their adventures with others is to think carefully...
JENNIFER CROCKER Tickle my heart with your pen. Write me for all to read. Bind our love inside a book. Make me, your ...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN Tickle my heart with your pen. Write me for all to read. Bind our love inside a book. Make me your p...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure pre...
HARRIET MARTINEAU You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure pre...
HARRIET MARTINEAU Tennessee is a great team. They're No. 1 for a reason and they make you pay for your mistakes. We we...
CHRIS LONG To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anythi...
GREEN DAY The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN My Dear Son,
I am so very proud of you. Now, as you embark on a new journey, I'd like to share ...
RICHARD PAUL EVANS Your time is limited, make the best of the time you have!
LULU MARES If I had to make a choice between no advice and biased advice, I'd choose biased advice because I th...
BARBARA ROPER Don't let your ego write checks your character can't cash.

another from the world of twee...
ROBIN GLASSER My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on.
RASHEED OGUNLARU You don’t need to take advice from somebody. Wait for your time, it is the best advisor.
VIKRANT PARSAI Hope is an essential way of keeping your spirits up. Always hope for the best thing that could happe...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA It is not your talents that make you great, but your decisions.
SHANNON L. ALDER Better you know yourself better you become able to choose between your own opinions and society's fo...
DEEPAK BURFIWALA You must be doing and trying, but make sure your mistakes are affordable mistakes ? more like tuitio...
JAMES CHU It will be very hard. You’ll make a million mistakes, and you’ll pay for them all, one way or an...
DERRICK JENSEN Family politics are worse than world politics. That's all I can say. You don't get to choose...
MICHAEL CIMINO Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fa...
DR. DAVID M. BURNS Have the best course for all your actions.
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you thei...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you could be God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfec...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Masochism is a valuable job skill.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Which is worse: Hell or nothing?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distrac...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sof...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Real discoveries come from chaos.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The future is just wasted on some people.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t
CHUCK PALAHNIUK There’s always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Us. God's forgotten Science Fair project, left to grow mold. God's goldfish, ignored until we're for...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beat...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You are not special. Your are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I tell everybody, i'm tired of being jerked around, okay? so lets just not pretend. i don't have fuc...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. without access to true chaos, we'...
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