Chuck Palahniuk Quotes About Ghosts

Quotes about: Ghosts

• When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight. These important stories, we rehearse them for years in our head but never tell. These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Cells, Years, People

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Haunted”, p.342, Random House

• What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Book, Ghost Stories

• If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fun, Real, Knowing Nothing

  "Chuck Palahniuk Answers Your Questions About Everything but His Books". Answers to A.V. Club readers' questions, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2007.

• These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Stories, Ghost

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Haunted”, p.342, Random House

• To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Culture, Ghost, Contributing

  "20 Q&As: Chuck Palahniuk". Interview with Stuart Hammond, www.dazeddigital.com. September 26, 2011.

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