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Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person.

Chuck Palahniuk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 21, 1962

Topics

Success Great Job Parents Think You

I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.

Maya Lin

I Am Project Hurry Take Very Am

I find that it's not the numbers but the quality of the audience. That's why it got to be such a big thing when I left Microsoft, because I had an interested audience; not huge, but passionate. The passionate ones are the ones who change society.

Robert Scoble

Change Quality Society Find Numbers

My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the 'New York Times' Building.

Ann Coulter

New York Building Regret Go New He

We know they are doing their job in committee, that they are brilliant men, smart men, and that they are on the job all the time. We're just human beings down here-all different. We take all these things into consideration. You can't help it.

John William McCormack

Time Men Job Smart Doing Help

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

Sofia Vergara

Go Understand Write English Go Away

I've never had difficulty dominating any market I've been in.

Steve Wynn

Never Difficulty Market Been Any

I'm an enormous fan of American literature, and especially the great novels of Larry McMurtry, 'Lonesome Dove,' Cormac McCarthy, Elmore Leonard.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Great American Literature Dove Fan

I run around my house naked with heels all the time. It's so funny.

Mary-Kate Olsen

Funny Time House Run Heels Naked

I say eat fast and die young.

Cory Monteith

Die Fast Young Say Eat

One of the interesting things about being a female police officer in the '60s is they really didn't have opportunities to do any serious police work - they filed, and they made coffee, and they were treated like secretaries.

Claire Holt

Work Coffee Police Opportunities

I just wanted to be a songwriter. I did really not like the sound of my own voice.

Aurora

Voice My Own Sound Own Just Like

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

William Shatner

Man Creative Writing Acting Lazy