English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:
Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Chuck Palahniuk quotes about reading

American Novelist, Writer February 21, 1961

Chuck Palahniuk quotes in russian
 Cite this Page: Citation

Quotes

This isn't about love and hate," Helen says. It's about control. People don't sit down and read a poem to kill their child. They just want the child tosleep. They just want to dominate. No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have your own way. The masochist bullies the sadist intoaction. The most passive person is actually an aggressor. Chuck Palahniuk
There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper. Chuck Palahniuk
A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. Other forms of mass media cost too much to produce a risk reaching only a limited audience. Only one person. But a book. . . . A book is cheap to print and bind. A book is as private and consensual as sex. A book takes time and effort to consume - something that gives a reader every chance to walk away. Actually, so few people make the effort to read that it's... Chuck Palahniuk
You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel. Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember."
By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember. Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "There are people out there who will not read books, but..."
There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books. Chuck Palahniuk
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we cant decipher. What we can’t understand we call nonsense. What we can’t read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables. There is only the inevitable. Chuck Palahniuk
From a May 2010 Interview, Chuck Palahniuk"Weird and creepy but true, I've been reading lots of Judy Blume. Being a 48-year-old male reading about adolescent sex in Forever gets me lots of stares in airports...At this point I am an authority on menstruation. Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "If you're going to read this, don't bother."
If you're going to read this, don't bother. Chuck Palahniuk

Popular Author

Related Authors