#k

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#big picture #close-up #everything #forgetting #look

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#anything #best #bullies #completely #devil

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#ever #every #every time #i #i always

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. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#apply #around #been #club #created

Goodfellow snickered."Wouldn't be any fun if we didn't run into some sort of catastrophe." Pulling his dagger ,he waved me on."After you,your highness. Puck to Ash ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#funny #puck #funny

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#care #check #clears #i #long

I don't know if you ever really feel like you've made it. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#feel #i #know #like #made

I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#chaos #emotion #get #good #i

I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#i #lot #out #selling #take

I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#i #kind #pacing #same #someone