Quotes By Chuck Palahniuk

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

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.

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.

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.