Quote

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

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
Like
Means
Crowded
Art
Gym
Look
Director
Looks
Directors
Mean
Guys
Trying
Says
Gyms
Way
Guy
Sculptor
Men
Looking
Sculptors

More quotes by 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
Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they gave up they stopped. The biggest talent you can have is determination.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
On a night without moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
How you're still always trapped. How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
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.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your only means of subsistence.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
I came to Party Crashing because accidents happen. People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need to accept and embrace that fact.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.' Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
A good story should change the way you see the world.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
I have an experience with as many of my readers as possible that's really genuine. I love it when they write to me, and I'm able to send them things. I love meeting them in person, and even if it's only for a moment I love having that physical, touching interaction.
Chuck Palahniuk