Quote

I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.

Chuck Palahniuk

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Pasco
Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
People
Insights
Harvest
Insight
Thoughts
Present
Sort
Ideas
Organise
Much
Inventory

More quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

Image
This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Suicide is very contagious.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
I see so many tattoos of my stuff on people - tattoos of my book covers, tattoos of quotes . . . it's kind of daunting sometimes.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
I'm working harder than I have ever worked in my entire life, but what the hell, my life is my job now, and my job is my life and that's the way it should be.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
In the big factory of perfecting human souls, the Earth was kind of tumbler. The sale as the kind people use to polish rocks. All souls come here to rub the sharp edges off each other. This isn't suffering. It's erosion.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
You can say anything if enough people will listen.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Just for the record, the weather today is increasing turmoil with a possible physical and emotional breakdown.
Chuck Palahniuk