American - Novelist | February 21, 1962 -
I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.
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What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.
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The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.
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I think America is just so in love with conflict.
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We kind of deny the stages of life.
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I don't know if you ever really feel like you've made it.
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I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.
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People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves.
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Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.
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It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.
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If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.
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