you're a product just as much. a product of a product. the people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. the minister in your church, another product.
Chuck PalahniukTo repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses.
Chuck PalahniukThat if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you’d never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you’d never need more. That if enough people loved you, you’d stop needing love.
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 Palahniuk