Chuck Palahniuk Quotes About Metaphor

Quotes about: Metaphor

• Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Thinking, Television, Metaphor

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.77, W. W. Norton & Company

• With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Emotional, Years, Issues

  Source: www.nightmare-magazine.com

• A certain number of people have to live their lives outdoors between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., and a certain number of people can only leave their homes between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. So basically, public life has to be lived in these shifts, in order for everyone to fit on the streets because there's just no more room for any more infrastructure, any more highways. So it polarizes the community into day people and night people, and it becomes sort of a metaphor for racism and classism.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Home, Night, Order

  Interview with Jeff Sartain, strangehorizons.com. October 16, 2006.

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