Chuck Palahniuk : (6)

" Few things in life seem more sexy than a banned book. " - Chuck Palahniuk

" In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to serve the purpose of the line that’s implied before it and the line that’s implied after it. Maybe five lines have to do the work of fifty lines. " - Chuck Palahniuk

" I’ve always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience. " - Chuck Palahniuk

" Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. " - Chuck Palahniuk

" Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself. " - Chuck Palahniuk

" ‘At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom’ by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose. " - Chuck Palahniuk