Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.

Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.

Everything I write is about me.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.

I don't worry about being exposed. When I'm writing about myself I think about myself as a character. There is a ton of stuff going on in my life that I don't write about. If I need to write that stuff down, I write about myself in my diary.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

There's so much more to me as a human being than just my appearance, and I want to integrate that into my work.

I'm really bad at describing my own life.

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

I write a lot about myself.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

I don't find myself intriguing.

When I write for myself, I think about myself and draw from my own experience.

I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be so.

I hope that when you see my work, you are looking at yourself looking.

Everyone likes taking their own photos and seeing themselves reflected back.

I've never been a confessional writer.

Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.