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You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Pasco
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing, entertaining, fun story to write and learn your writing chops with the least important things before you start applying them to the most important things.
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The answer is there is no answer.
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Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, I'll be anybody you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.
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Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.
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This isn’t really death, Tyler says, We’ll be legend. We won’t grow old. I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you’re thinking of vampires.
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I have a secret goal with my editor - he has asthma and uses his inhaler, and after I send him a new manuscript, I'll have his assistant phone me and tell me how many times he had to get his inhaler out while reading a draft. It's my secret laugh meter.
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If you're not drunk and half naked by this point, you're not paying attention.
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Suicide is very contagious.
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With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.
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Funerals are all abstract ceremony.
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The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.
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It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.
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Just for the record, how I feel right now is very terrific.
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Every character sees the world through a framework of education and experience that they're proud experts about. To write a character, find out what they know best, and THEN you'll know how they'll describe a hot day. Or a pretty girl.
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To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.
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It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
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I realized that my book readings were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk through the whole event and I needed to make it more interesting. I wanted to be running and jumping and do something so that the event would be so exciting. I had to trick myself into having fun every time.
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Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.
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Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.
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Maybe we should always assume the worst.
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