Top 241 Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a grown-up means doing every part of the larger task.

The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.

My writing process isn't a very organized thing.

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music.