Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.
Chuck Palahniuk
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Middle
Dies
Chance
Story
Stories
Right
Always
Life
More quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.
Chuck Palahniuk
A good story should change the way you see the world.
Chuck Palahniuk
Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things - they save you.
Chuck Palahniuk
Really, just looking around, you feel a twinge of pity for the poor souls who succeeded in getting past the Pearly Gates. One can't help but picture the lackluster VIP lounge in Heaven, a kind of nonalcoholic ice-cream social starring Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mahatma Gandhi. Hardly anyone's idea of a with-it social register.
Chuck Palahniuk
I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
Chuck Palahniuk
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
Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
Chuck Palahniuk
All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.
Chuck Palahniuk
Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.
Chuck Palahniuk
People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
Chuck Palahniuk
When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.
Chuck Palahniuk
You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!
Chuck Palahniuk
I didn't use anybody's story. I used the context and the structure of the situation. People were so, so desperate to tell their story and begin to digest their experience - like turning it into a story - that after the fist few weeks I could go with a pad and pencil and take notes. People didn't seem at all bothered by that.
Chuck Palahniuk
If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.
Chuck Palahniuk
On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
Chuck Palahniuk
Just let your hand drop and let fate decide for you.
Chuck Palahniuk
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
We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.
Chuck Palahniuk
We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.
Chuck Palahniuk
As the stupidest person in the room, I always had the most to gain.
Chuck Palahniuk
