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.

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.

Chuck Palahniuk

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Chuck Palahniuk

My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't invited to a party.' That always struck so true, and people always nod their heads when they hear that. Especially writers.

Chuck Palahniuk

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

Chuck Palahniuk

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

Chuck Palahniuk

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

Chuck Palahniuk

We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.

We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.

Chuck Palahniuk

I have a lot of fans who are in the prison system, where ramen noodles are a kind of staple. Prisoners are always sending me recipes.

I have a lot of fans who are in the prison system, where ramen noodles are a kind of staple. Prisoners are always sending me recipes.

Chuck Palahniuk

I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can explore it through a metaphor and make a kind of funny, dark story about it, and in doing so, really exhaust and research as many aspects of it as I can imagine. And in a way, that does give me some closure.

Chuck Palahniuk

Since September 11, 2001, the real world has become too scary for a lot of people to be with - all the time.

Since September 11, 2001, the real world has become too scary for a lot of people to be with - all the time.

Chuck Palahniuk

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