Top 241 Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

About Chuck Palahniuk

These are some quotes by American author Chuck Palahniuk Novelist, who was born on February 21, 1961.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

Chuck Palahniuk

The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

Chuck Palahniuk

The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.

The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.

Chuck Palahniuk

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

Chuck Palahniuk

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

Chuck Palahniuk

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.

Chuck Palahniuk

David Fincher is a genius.

David Fincher is a genius.

Chuck Palahniuk

In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor.

Chuck Palahniuk

At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.'

At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.'

Chuck Palahniuk

I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.

I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.

Chuck Palahniuk

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