My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories. Chuck Palahniuk adventureadvicechoose Change image and share on social
I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that. Chuck Palahniuk cottageenormouslyfine Change image and share on social
What we don't understand we can make mean anything. Chuck Palahniuk makeunderstand Change image and share on social
You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel. Chuck Palahniuk crafthearimmediacy Change image and share on social
I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears. Chuck Palahniuk bookcarecheck Change image and share on social
It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained. Chuck Palahniuk centuryconnectionexplain Change image and share on social
When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month. Chuck Palahniuk dozengrandmahundred Change image and share on social
You realize you have no control over how you're perceived. Chuck Palahniuk controlperceiverealize Change image and share on social
I think a lot of people saw 'Fight Club' and thought, 'Right, here's our next Che Guevara, here's our next Fidel Castro, here's someone who's going to wave the flag.' And I was like, 'No, it's just a book. And if I beat that drum, if I play that song one more time, I won't have a career.' Chuck Palahniuk beatbookcareer share on social
Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a sort of glimmer of hope... but darkness wins. Chuck Palahniuk 70sbabybig share on social