If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?
Chuck PalahniukThe strength of film is its accessibility and immediacy. But the strength of books is that freedom to really depict anything you want because people are going to be reading it in private. So, I'm always trying to write with the immediacy and the constant motion of film but I'm also trying to write with the complete freedom of subject matter that books have.
Chuck PalahniukThink of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. Thatโs the earth. Why it goes around. Weโre the rocks. And what happens to usโthe drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuseโwhy, thatโs just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright.
Chuck Palahniuk