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Why do the lives of writers seem so... train-wrecky?

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Lives Seem Why Writers

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Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation... they're inseparable.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Always Attractive Brother Build Built Cities Could Creation Destroy Destroying Destruction Fantastic Free Idea Inseparable Joy Making Minutes Models New New Thing Something Spend Them Then Thing Used Weeks You 15 Minutes

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'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Based Creative Creative Process Entire Eventually Fall Friends Idea Introduce Isolate Love Me Myself Obsess Over Over It Process Romance Stupid Tell

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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

Topics: Am Buy Death Deserved Die Ever How Just Life Live Misery My Life People Responsible Things Think Thousands Thousands Of People Through I Think I Am

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I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Break Characters Coping Down Mechanisms Pages Point Really Want Where Within

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I think it's more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who already read. There's a reason men don't read, and it's because books don't serve men. It's time we produce books that serve men.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Back Because Books Brings Important Men More People Produce Read Reading Reason Serve Something Than Think Time Who Write I Think

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We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Made Making Mistakes Must Relax Right Same Same Mistakes Years Years Ago

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In almost all my work, I try to re-invent Christian images and stories and themes. You'd be amazed by the letters I get from young Christians who recognise this and enjoy it.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: All My Work Almost Almost All Amazed Christian Christians Enjoy Get Images Letters Recognise Stories Themes Try Who Work You Young

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My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Books Choke Club Crises Dealt Fight Fight Club First Found Four Identity Issues Personal Personal Identity Themselves Were

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I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Books Distracting Noisy Read World Write I Write

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 21st, 1962

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