Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done.
Chuck PalahniukYou have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!
Chuck PalahniukThe only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.
Chuck PalahniukThe same architect who designed the Seattle fair's futuristic Science Center, with its lacy Gothic arches and spires, Minoru Yamasaki, was hired to design the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Seattle had promised fairgoers a glimpse of the world that would exist in 2001. That year eventually unfolded as something less than the dream we'd imagined.
Chuck Palahniuk