“When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she woul...” — Chuck Palahniuk Quote

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.

Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer.

For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness of hippies.

Movie brawls tend to be bloodless and quick.

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

The thing I hated about it was that you live in your trailer all the time and then they call you and you do maybe two dozen lines. Then they do that for three hours and you wait and wait and wait, and I don't like waiting.

From birth until I went to art college when I was 19, there are perhaps less than a dozen photographs of me.

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?

In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children.