Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

About Chuck Palahniuk:

Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk is an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as transgressional fiction.
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Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they ...

Chuck Palahniuk

At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.'

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People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

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Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

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The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

Chuck Palahniuk

My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people.

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When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place.

Chuck Palahniuk

Apenas a consumação de um novo amor sepulta o anterior e até mesmo as vozes me abandonaram agora.

Chuck Palahniuk

Passando pelas galerias do esgoto de cabeça pra baixo, de trás pra frente, ao contrário, ao inverso, mas não; ao avesso, a entidade improcessável só podia ser convertida em enlouqueço, esqueço de mim e abandono a realidade do plausível, cord...

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O horror galgou meus membros dos inferiores aos superiores garfando nervo a nervo e um calafrio percorreu a minha espinha me desossando e vim ao chão em pleno desmanche.

Chuck Palahniuk

Eu temia que qualquer mínimo ruído atraísse o pior, conjurasse do próprio breu branco um horror incomensurável.

Chuck Palahniuk

Sorri um alívio já então fisgado por anzóis de pavor vazio; pelo meu sorriso o horror fincou suas presas a mim me enforcando pelo avesso?

Chuck Palahniuk

Eu precisava de sustância pensei ao admirar o vir e ir dos transeuntes encarcerados à carne de suas vidas endividadas para com um íntimo já esmagado por forças perversas, anônimas e tão presentes quanto o calor à pele e o frio aos ossos.

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Empurrei meu corpo pra morte, enfim derrotada; me larguei sobre uma encosta íngreme e indevassável; caí rolando, esfolada por pedregulhos, esfaqueada por galhos até um córrego de esgoto? O qual continuou me empurrando para o além, próximo à m...

Chuck Palahniuk

Lembranças ruins sempre encontram um jeitinho de se incrustar ao fundo do crânio e emitir uma vaga radiação cósmica para o resto das nossas vidas.

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A vida ávida me vivisseca até a secura dos ossos.

Chuck Palahniuk

We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.

Chuck Palahniuk

A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. Other forms of mass media cost too much to produce a risk reaching only a limited audience. Only one person. But a book. ....

Chuck Palahniuk

A book is as private and consensual as sex.

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This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.

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Author Bio

  • NameChuck Palahniuk
  • DescriptionAmerican novelist, essayist
  • BornFebruary 21, 1962
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Journalist; Essayist
  • WorksFight Club; Choke; Rant