Chuck Palahniuk quotes

" It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one. " # Action # Acting and Actors # Love

" If you haven’t already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people. In a way, that is the opposite of the American Dream: to get so rich you can rise above the rabble, all those people on the freeway or, worse, the bus. " # Focus # Books - Reading # America

" A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. " # Perfection

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

" Someone bent on suicide won’t have much sense of humour left. " # Suicide

" This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you… People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren’t telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before. " # Love

" I think they've always gone on. I've gotten some irate letters from oldsters saying "We did this in the 1930s. You didn't invent anything." And I'm like, "Gramps, you should have put a name on it and sold it, because that’s all I did." " # Letters # Love # Perseverance

" I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television. " # Television # Causes # Love

" The journalist researches a story. The novelist imagines it. What’s funny is, you’d be amazed at the amount of time a novelist has to spend with people in order to create this single lonely voice. This seemingly isolated world. It’s hard to call any of my novels “fiction.” " # Journalism and Journalists # Fiction # Writers and Writing

" Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away. " # Economy and Economics # Laughter # Love