American - Novelist | February 21, 1962 -
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
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There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.
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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.
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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.
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Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
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Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar, below people's defenses.
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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.
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When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month.
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I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.
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If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.
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Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars.
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Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money.
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