Quote

So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.

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
Gets
Leave
Take
Good

More quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

Image
Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
A male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
If you haven't already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.In a way, that is the opposite of the American Dream: to get so rich you can rise above the rabble, all those people on the freeway or, worse, the bus.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
I suppose it’s comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
A good story should change the way you see the world.
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
The more things you own, the more they own you.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Don't write about your most emotionally charged moment as a learning thing.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
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.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Don't do this. I love you. Don't shut me out.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor.
Chuck Palahniuk