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You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking.

Chuck Palahniuk

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

Chuck Palahniuk

My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories.

Chuck Palahniuk

If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Chuck Palahniuk

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place.

Chuck Palahniuk

While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps create a consistent mood for each book.

Chuck Palahniuk

With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to make an ongoing effort to consume this product and that the project is being consumed by just one person at a time. I really want to play to that strength because it's one of the few advantages books still have.

Chuck Palahniuk

My father worked for the railroad, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal food from the boxcars. One year we stole a case of butterscotch pudding that was for export to Israel. It took us years to get through.

Chuck Palahniuk

When the 'Fight Club' movie was going into production, I quit my job so I could write full-time.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Sometimes, like in 'Invisible Monsters,' I get too out of control, and instead of a plot point every chapter, I want a plot point in every sentence.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think a lot of people saw 'Fight Club' and thought, 'Right, here's our next Che Guevara, here's our next Fidel Castro, here's someone who's going to wave the flag.' And I was like, 'No, it's just a book. And if I beat that drum, if I play that song one more time, I won't have a career.'

Chuck Palahniuk

I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.

Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

Chuck Palahniuk

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

Chuck Palahniuk

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

Chuck Palahniuk

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Chuck Palahniuk

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

Chuck Palahniuk

We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings.

Chuck Palahniuk

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Chuck Palahniuk

I haven't shoplifted since I was 13.

Chuck Palahniuk

Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer.

Chuck Palahniuk

When working, my diet degrades to pizza three times a day, because I don't want to distract myself from anything.

Chuck Palahniuk

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

Chuck Palahniuk

My books didn't fit a marketing niche.

Chuck Palahniuk

People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that.

Chuck Palahniuk

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.

Chuck Palahniuk

I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes.

Chuck Palahniuk

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Chuck Palahniuk

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

Chuck Palahniuk

I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or the way the world is.

Chuck Palahniuk