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Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.

~Chuck Palahniuk

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I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Because Case Child Clean Could Definitely Every Every Time Had Head Hold If I Could Influences Joke Least Lucky Me Narrative Radio Since Slate Television Time Turn You 1970S

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I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Books Brown Chris Chris Brown Dismissed Gay Gets His Kind Little More Really Smart Sold Think Widely Wish Writer I Think I Wish

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When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years - they laughed; they didn't have any kind of shock reaction.

~Chuck Palahniuk

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Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really well. And this is much better than setting fires, so keep it up.' That made me a writer.

~Chuck Palahniuk

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So many of our enormous emotional crises are lived through the media. They're lived through movies; they're lived through what we watch on television - they're not actual events in our life.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Actual Crises Emotional Enormous Events Life Lived Many Media Movies Our Television Through Watch

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We don't have friends, so we watch 'Friends' on TV.

~Chuck Palahniuk

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I think my heart always goes out to men at the peak of their celebrity who checked out. There's such an odd, horrible trend in my lifetime for it - Kurt Cobain, David Foster Wallace, Alexander McQueen, Heath Ledger.

~Chuck Palahniuk

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My parents divorced about the same time the movie 'The Parent Trap' came out, about two twins at camp who scheme to get their parents back together. I had that same fantasy.

~Chuck Palahniuk

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The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm shocked by the deeply personal things I've put into books without realizing it.

~Chuck Palahniuk

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 21st, 1962

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