Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Victorville gave me opportunity to go inside and explore my imagination a bit.

But I'm more of a recluse when it comes down to being a writer and being a creative person rather than being a celebrity.

Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination.

A dirty mind is a rich inner resource.

A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream? Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness!

To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.

You have to allow your mind to create and then if you want to censor something and bring it down or point it in a different direction, then you can do it.

Consciousness is always open to many possibilities because it involves play. It is always an adventure.

We are bound only by the limits of our imaginations.

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

All of us can create if we allow ourselves to.

Creativity is very self-indulgent.

O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything.

I have to speak through a computer... in my mind, I am free. Free to explore the universe and ask the big questions...

A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.

To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.

You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.

So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there is some evidence that a rich internal fantasy life is as good and necessary for a child as healthy soil is for a plant, for much the same reasons.

The blank page gives us the right to dream.

People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.

Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. That is creation. What it creates has nothing to do with it. Freedom from the known is the state of a mind that is in creation.

A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.

You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!