Chuck Palahniuk Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Beautiful, People, World

• 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

  Fighting, Thinking, Two

  "Novelist Chuck Palahniuk". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 28, 2010.

• We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Long, Firsts, Language

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

• I am a writer and the greatest compliment I can get is to know that I've contributed language to the culture, that I've defined something, given it a name. So I think that is one of the great things a writer can do.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Thinking, Names, Culture

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against the very dark subject matter, that very strange murderous plot, but use that Harlequin Romance language.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Writing, Dark

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Doe, Movement

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

• You're a product of our language, and how our laws are and how we believe our God wants us. Every bitty molecule about you has already been thought out by some million people before you. Anything you can do is boring and old and perfectly okay. You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it. You can't imagine any way to escape. There's no way you can get out.The world is your cradle and your trap.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Believe, Law, People

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.182, W. W. Norton & Company

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