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Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.

Chuck Palahniuk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Down Want Point Within Break Coping

What's amazing about 'White Heat' is that, even for its time, it's very truthful in the way it deals with violence.

Time Amazing Violence White Way

I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!

Good Focus I Am You Say Silent

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

Life Simple Thinking Routine Salary

At the end of the day, I can't curl up with people's opinions.

Day People End Of The Day End Up

I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read about his time as a steamboat pilot.

Life Time Interesting Airport Pilot

A lot of times, directors don't know how to speak to actors, or writers don't know how to communicate.

Speak Know Communicate How Directors

I think what the Tea Party movement is - I'm all for it; they're out there fighting for our rights, fighting for what our forefathers stood for.

Tea Think Fighting Party Movement

At the end of the day, I'm a very boring academic, bogged down with academia and structure and delivering an education.

Education Day End Of The Day End

My delight in things is definitely Caribbean. It has to do with landscape and food. The fact that my language may have a metrical direction is because that's the shape of the language. I didn't make that shape.

Food Direction Language Landscape

All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.

Deborah Moggach

Alone People World Feel Want Books

I consider myself a rampant feminist.

Myself Feminist Consider Rampant

I'm still the same person I've always been.

Person Same Always Been Still

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