Chuck Palahniuk Quotes About Adventure

Quotes about: Adventure

• Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mistake, Writing, Adventure

• I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Single, Real, Adventure

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.261, W. W. Norton & Company

• At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Memories, Adventure, Stories

• You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Adventure, Order

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

• The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fear, Believe, Writing

  Chuck Palahniuk (2004). “Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories”, NY Books

• We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Adventure, Horror Stories, True Life

• People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe, organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become. With the whole world property-lined and speed-limited and zoned and taxed and regulated, with everyone tested and registered and adressed and recorded. Nobody had left much room for adventure, except maybe the kind you could buy. [...] The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Adventure, Years, Law

• I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Adventure, Maps

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.261, W. W. Norton & Company

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