Chuck Palahniuk Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.”

“You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.”

“You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.”

“Men want to make the best use of time and want to see how something can inform them and give them a stronger sense of power.”

“To be honest, I hate silence.”

“Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer.”

“My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl.”

“My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the next rewrite.”

“Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.”

“Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's right to an abortion, which I always thought was the core of 'Rosemary's Baby,' or the backlash against feminism which I always thought was the core to 'Stepford Wives.'”