It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.
Chuck PalahniukPublic taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of the moment and what people will like right now; the idea is to somehow keep yourself in the public memory so that as taste evolves it will eventually come to embrace your thing. So, it's about writing to be remembered rather than writing to be liked.
Chuck PalahniukWhat they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.
Chuck PalahniukStone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
Chuck PalahniukSo this is why I write. Because most times, your life isnโt funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. Thatโs why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you canโt control life, at least you can control your version.
Chuck Palahniuk