Chuck Palahniuk

Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you. ”

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person? ”

Every woman is just a different kind of problem. ”

My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the next rewrite. ”

Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money. ”

I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around. ”

I have a lot of money. ”

When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month. ”

I write nothing but contemporary romances. ”

If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning. ”