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I'm only confrontational with my friends.Collection: Chuck
I haven't shoplifted since I was 13.Collection: Chuck
I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.Collection: Chuck
Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.Collection: Chuck
I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.Collection: Chuck
Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.Collection: Chuck
If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.Collection: Chuck
If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.Collection: Chuck
People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that.Collection: Chuck
The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.Collection: Chuck
The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.Collection: Chuck
I think America is just so in love with conflict.Collection: Chuck
We kind of deny the stages of life.Collection: Chuck
I don't know if you ever really feel like you've made it.Collection: Chuck
I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.Collection: Chuck
You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.Collection: Chuck
You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.Collection: Chuck
People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves.Collection: Chuck
Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.Collection: Chuck
It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.Collection: Chuck
Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.Collection: Chuck
Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by.Collection: Chuck
The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.Collection: Chuck
As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?Collection: Chuck
My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.Collection: Chuck
Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.Collection: Chuck
I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.Collection: Chuck
I write nothing but contemporary romances.Collection: Chuck
My goal is never to make fun of religion.Collection: Chuck
Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away.Collection: Chuck
At school I was lazy. But I started working when I was 15, washing dishes at a local truck stop restaurant. I was really, really bored with school, and I wanted to get a job as fast as I could. School was just so easy. There was just no challenge to it.Collection: Chuck
I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65.Collection: Chuck
I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience.Collection: Chuck
My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectly with the comic-con crowd.Collection: Chuck
My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word for maybe a year, and I'll just be with people, going to parties and soaking up stories, and just sort of recharging all of my ideas.Collection: Chuck
Once I start writing, I can't stop.Collection: Chuck
A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music.Collection: Chuck
My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's reader is smarter.Collection: Chuck
In my family, we can't just sit and be together. We have to be shelling peas or husking corn or something. A larger task. Some way of being with people.Collection: Chuck
Men want to make the best use of time and want to see how something can inform them and give them a stronger sense of power.Collection: Chuck
My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl.Collection: Chuck
People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.Collection: Chuck
I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes.Collection: Chuck
If you don't believe what other people believe, then they'll accuse you of being nihilistic.Collection: Chuck
I think a lot of people saw 'Fight Club' and thought, 'Right, here's our next Che Guevara, here's our next Fidel Castro, here's someone who's going to wave the flag.' And I was like, 'No, it's just a book. And if I beat that drum, if I play that song one more time, I won't have a career.'Collection: Chuck
If we all lived according to the teachings of Jesus Christ, life would be much simpler.Collection: Chuck
I thought 'Fight Club' was great as David Fincher's version.Collection: Chuck
The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.Collection: Chuck
My books are all fantastically sentimental.Collection: Chuck
The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.Collection: Chuck