Quote

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

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
Best
Labor
Ideas
Exercise
Seem
Manual
Happen
Manuals
Sure
Mindless
Free
Occur
Happens
Remarkable
Seems
Leaves

More quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

Image
If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic... to have the immediacy and accessibility of film so that the reader really has to fill in a lot of the details.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Imagine a plague you catch through your ears.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
What would Tyler Durden do?
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
The body ages. grows. passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die essentially the same person. That... that is proof of your deathless soul.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
The weather today is partly angry, leading to resignation and ultimatums.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
The cancer I don't have is everywhere now.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time.
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
Don't rush or force the ending. All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.
Chuck Palahniuk