There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.
Chuck PalahniukPeter used to say that an artistโs job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You make sense out of senseless facts. You puzzle together bits of everything. You shuffle and reorganize. Collage. Montage. Assemble.
Chuck PalahniukAfter you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
Chuck PalahniukI often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing with his hand or foot, I can look up and study people and find compelling gestures that I can harvest. Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.
Chuck PalahniukSkin, bones, blood and organs transplant from person to person. Even whatโs inside you already, the colonies of microbes and bugs that eat your food for you, without them youโd die. Nothing of you is all-the-way yours. All of you is inherited. Whatever youโre thinking, a million other folks are thinking. Whatever you do, theyโre doing, and none of you is responsible. All of you is a cooperative effort.
Chuck Palahniuk