American - Novelist | February 21, 1962 -
So many of our enormous emotional crises are lived through the media. They're lived through movies; they're lived through what we watch on television - they're not actual events in our life.
Chuck Palahniuk
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We don't have friends, so we watch 'Friends' on TV.
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I've got two dogs; they're Boston terriers, and they're allowed everywhere.
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My parents divorced about the same time the movie 'The Parent Trap' came out, about two twins at camp who scheme to get their parents back together. I had that same fantasy.
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The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm shocked by the deeply personal things I've put into books without realizing it.
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I usually write in my kitchen, which is a large, octagonal room that looks into woods - three big windows look out into the trees.
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While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps create a consistent mood for each book.
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At school I was lazy. But I started working when I was 15, washing dishes at a local truck stop restaurant. I was really, really bored with school, and I wanted to get a job as fast as I could. School was just so easy. There was just no challenge to it.
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I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65.
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My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectly with the comic-con crowd.
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My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word for maybe a year, and I'll just be with people, going to parties and soaking up stories, and just sort of recharging all of my ideas.
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Once I start writing, I can't stop.
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