FastSaying

My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's reader is smarter.


Chuck Palahniuk

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes ...
L.A. WEATHERLY It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Soon after publishing a book for kids, my mailbox began to fill with letters from children all acros...
RODMAN PHILBRICK The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you...
JO NESBO I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like t...
CARLOS FUENTES Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.
ALBERTO MANGUEL Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.
JOHN BOYNE Reading books doesn't make you smarter. Reading smart books makes you smarter. Reading dumb books ma...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why ...
KAREN HESSE A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten yea...
ARTHUR KOESTLER I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books th...
OCTAVIO PAZ The early readers are in-between books for the kids who aren't ready for novels yet but are done...
GRACE LIN ' The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' p...
ROGER EBERT I guess my most prized pop culture possession is a signed first edition of the book 'Fight Club&...
JEN LANCASTER One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly g...
ANDRE DUBUS III Her books were put down by most critics but readers would not put down her books.
GENE SHALIT All of my books now come from readers' ideas.
ANN RULE It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and ...
ALBERTO MANGUEL 'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the book...
RACHEL GIBSON Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as dem...
DAVID WALLIAMS What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it'...
BARRY EISLER There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
BARBARA PARK Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that...
UMBERTO ECO I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting...
PATRICK DEWITT My cartoon, which certainly did not offend any Christians I showed it to, was rejected because the e...
CHRISTOFFER ZIELER I'm an avid reader myself, and what any one reader accesses at any one time is very powerful and...
DARREN BOYD Books choose their readers, not the other way around. I believe that booksellers are the matchmakers...
CECELIA AHERN In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.
GARRY TRUDEAU Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel ...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want t...
JACKIE COLLINS When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people...
ROALD DAHL The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those read...
SETH GODIN Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers.
HARRY TRUMAN This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably b...
POPPY Z. BRITE Readers are thinkers & Thinkers are readers.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as th...
AL CAPP The fact of the matter is I always have a really high sense of responsibility to the reader, whether...
ELIZABETH STROUT A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart."
— Chuck Palahniuk, ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
AIDAN CHAMBERS Our readers love celebrities, ... We cover the aspects of celebrity that our readers can most relate...
JANICE MIN Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.
JAMES ELLROY Leaders are readers and readers are leaders!
KRISTIAN OLSEN Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?
EVAN HUNTER Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing ...
KHALED HOSSEINI I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down an...
SUZANNE BROCKMANN I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.
NANCY PICKARD Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don't throw y...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK My readers and my audiences have turned into my followers. They are more than interested in what I h...
JEFFREY GITOMER Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... ...
GARRY TRUDEAU Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other ga...
JONATHAN ZITTRAIN They look very promising: Shorter, accessible, they're geared to readers a little younger than the c...
JEROME KRAMER There's something about the idea of writing, and thinking about writing as a form of prayer - th...
RUTH OZEKI Everything I write is meant to share what I'm struggling with. I hope that it helps other people...
NIR EYAL Our magazine is entirely reader-driven. We receive direct feedback from readers through surveys, and...
LEESA COBLE These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if techn...
REBECCA MCNUTT A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' ...
ARTHUR KOESTLER Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.
KENNETH L. PIKE I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little'...
LOUIS SACHAR Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let...
E. L. KONIGSBURG Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brav...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL I like to write about things that fascinate me because I believe that they will also fascinate my re...
RUSSELL FREEDMAN One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about ly...
DAMON GALGUT Sometimes people ask if my books have morals or lessons for readers, and I shudder at that thought. ...
ROBIN HOBB A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
READERS DIGEST My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of ...
JANET FITCH Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to ...
GAIL CARRIGER I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which m...
MORRIS GLEITZMAN Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care,...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Amazon Connect creates a relationship with my readers that didn't exist before. Communicating direct...
JAMES PATTERSON If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.
ROALD DAHL I've read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhamma...
CONOR MCGREGOR Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numb...
EVAN OSNOS There cannot be any better cross-section of America and I think the soldiers represent the best we h...
GERALD GRIFFIN Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online...
DANIEL CLOWES Even if readers claim that they 'take it all with a grain of salt', they do not really. They yearn t...
IRIS MURDOCH The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending...
KIM YOUNG-HA Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the character...
ALAN DEAN FOSTER I'm no advertising genius. I found that if you deliver news and information to the consumer, or the ...
AL NEUHARTH When I write, I have a sort of secret kinship of readers in all countries who don't know each ot...
TEJU COLE I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writi...
PAULO COELHO It's a time of great uncertainty, but we are focused on doing great journalism for ourselves because...
AMANDA BENNETT It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone bei...
KARIN SLAUGHTER Because the majority of my readers are women, I feel that one public service I can provide to them i...
CATHY GUISEWITE 'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more...
PATRICK DEWITT 'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not o...
BOBBY GHOSH My problems start when the smarter bears and the dumber visitors intersect.
STEVE THOMPSON I feel quite confident that audiences on both sides of the Atlantic are growing 'dumber,' if...
TERRY TEACHOUT With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than youn...
GARTH NIX I was one of those children they used to call 'readers.'
CATHLEEN SCHINE I think younger readers connect so readily to animal characters because they share a certain vulnera...
K. A. APPLEGATE It is a cop-out to say 'it was one of those things' because the players are better than that. They a...
JIMMY ADAMS ...but one can't be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.
LAINI TAYLOR Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.
RAINER MARIA RILKE Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.
EDWARD ABBEY It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a smal...
ANNE FADIMAN What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them...
JENNIFER DONNELLY If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I fee...
SIDNEY SHELDON Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
SCOTT WESTERFELD That’s what our country needs – more books and far more readers.
AMAN JASSAL

More Chuck Palahniuk

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' '...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The best thing about getting a flu shot is that you never again need to wash your hands. That's ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't f...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens jus...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their w...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - pai...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scare...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, beca...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or aware...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK A film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK My grandfather was hit over the head by a crane boom in Seattle. Some of the family claimed he was n...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Movie brawls tend to be bloodless and quick.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You decide your own level of involvement.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolis...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in a...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run f...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of yo...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Beca...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK A menos que todo empeore, nada puede mejorar.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, b...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stair...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Love me, I'll be anyobdy you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and bi...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follo...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Disaster is a natural part of my evolution. Toward tragedy and dissolution.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as being a man means looking the w...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. Since fight club, I can wiggle half the teet...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK That old saying, how you always hurt the one you love, well, it works both ways
CHUCK PALAHNIUK College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink
CHUCK PALAHNIUK “Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foo...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK And maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Only after disaster can we be ressurected.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumpti...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster, or some sud...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes availa...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Maybe we should always assume the worst.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive....
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The first step to eternal life, is you have to die.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK On a long enough timeline. The survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home jo...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everyth...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is ou...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unco...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poo...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibili...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like gr...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issu...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagn...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really we...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about tha...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Maybe it's better just living the way you figure life is when you're a kid. Before you get too smart...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Real smart begins when you quit quoting other people.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lo...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their dis...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I say let me never be complete, I say may I never be content,I say deliver me from Swedish furniture...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You have to give up! you have to give up!
You have to realize that someday you will die,
U...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Big Brother fills us all with the same crap. My guess is he was clever the same way everybody thinks...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Find good in what the world says is evil.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Make me into anything, but just love me.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Give me lust, baby.
Flash.
Give me malice.
Flash.
Give me detached existentialis...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Fuck me. I'm so tired of being me. Me beautiful. Me ugly. Blonde. Brunette. A million fucking fashio...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed fee...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I think a lot of people saw 'Fight Club' and thought, 'Right, here's our next Che Gu...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK My father worked for the railroad, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal f...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it mi...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they&#...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inven...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Every decade, we get a stunning collection of dynamic, heartbreaking short stories. In the past, tho...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's rig...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing,...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK What I did was pour out about a gallon of Chanel Number Five and put a burning wedding invitation to...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The idea that population growth guarantees a better life - financially or otherwise - is a myth that...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustr...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK 'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK She's not wearing makeup so her face just looks like skin.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstru...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow peop...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a boo...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she's still able to recover.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK My secret wish is right now to be romancing this dead girl. A dead girl. Any dead girl. I'm not what...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they'r...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet the...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next t...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then peop...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The things you used to own, now they own you.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it se...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood ed...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justifie...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Hysteria is only possible with an audience.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things th...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vo...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The things you own end up owning you.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depre...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We just had a near-life experience!
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'...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK