Chuck Palahniuk

A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you’re planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better.

Chuck Palahniuk

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.

Chuck Palahniuk

A child who is disillusioned abruptly, by his peers or siblings, being ridiculed for his faith and imagination, may choose never to believe in anything tangible or intangible again. To never trust or wonder.

Chuck Palahniuk

A film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience.

Chuck Palahniuk

A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine.

Chuck Palahniuk

A writer’s job is to cultivate what can go wrong.

Chuck Palahniuk

After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.

Chuck Palahniuk

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.

Chuck Palahniuk

Any ‘artist’ makes a living by expressing what others can’t – because they’re unaware of their feelings, they’re too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.

Chuck Palahniuk