Chuck Palahniuk

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#breathing #fact #feel #feel good #funeral

You realize you have no control over how you're perceived. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#how #over #perceived #realize #you

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#crafted #hear #i #immediacy #lot

You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#incredible #more #nonfiction #over-the-top #story

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels? ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#had #jesus #where #would #written

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

#book #children #effect #engaged #every

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#change #choose #every #everything #find

We kind of deny the stages of life. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#kind #life #stages

There will always be an underground. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#underground #will

There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#out #people #read #somehow #who