American - Novelist | February 21, 1962 -
Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Sundays tend to be a day where just I do nothing but visit people. It's kind of like trick-or-treating.
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Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable.
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I don't think 'Guts' could get financed as a movie.
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The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.
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We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.
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Why do the lives of writers seem so... train-wrecky?
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I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or the way the world is.
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Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation... they're inseparable.
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Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy.
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I think that I am responsible for the death of thousands of things and for the misery of thousands of people, just through the things that I buy and how I live my life, and these are not things that ever deserved to die.
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I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.
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