Chuck Palahniuk

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I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

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In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother - the plot of Choke - while privately I was caring for my own dying mother. It was torture.

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I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a grown-up means doing every part of the larger task.

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If we can prove an afterlife, then we have less pressure to make our physical life last forever.

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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

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I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.

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I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.

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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.

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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.

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If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.

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