American - Novelist | February 21, 1962 -
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
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In my family, we can't just sit and be together. We have to be shelling peas or husking corn or something. A larger task. Some way of being with people.
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Men want to make the best use of time and want to see how something can inform them and give them a stronger sense of power.
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My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl.
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People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.
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If you don't believe what other people believe, then they'll accuse you of being nihilistic.
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I thought 'Fight Club' was great as David Fincher's version.
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My grandfather was hit over the head by a crane boom in Seattle. Some of the family claimed he was never a violent, crazy person before that. Some say he was. It depends who you believe.
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My books are all fantastically sentimental.
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The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.
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When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'
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Writing gave me the world.
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