Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

I'm the kind of writer that, once I get into writing mode in my brain, I'm non-stop.

If I'm on a roll, and I finish a script at 3:00, I'll start another at 3:02.

When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.

I think we've all been in the middle of doing something we cared about, when someone coming in the room and saying 'hello' was annoying. I personally can understand that, as someone who tries to create.

When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.

When I'm writing, I write every day. It's lovely when that's happening. One day dovetailing into the next. Sometimes I don't even know what day of the week it is.

What could be more exciting when the writing is going well and things are falling into place? It's just like riding a fabulous wave for a surfer. There's no better place to be.

When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.

I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.

When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone.

When I'm really fixated on a bit of writing, I can easily spend six days without leaving the house and barely leaving my room.

I tend to be an all-in-type of guy, so I get in a zone to write, and then that's all I do. I'll spend eight hours doing nothing but chasing that one song. That's what works for me.

I am a compulsive writer.

I write manically.

I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.

When the writing is going well, I'm obsessive. I don't shower, I don't take phone calls, I hardly respond to text messages, I don't do email. I take breaks only to read, and usually I read poetry. When it's not going well, I just lie in bed and eat chocolate.

When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.

If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.

But what I didn't recognize when I was much younger was this sort of...when you're on, when you're really on, go at it.

When I'm creatively solving problems, I'm in my sweet spot, and nothing can take me out of that joyful present.

I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.

Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to be a writer can afford to indulge in it.

The professional is acutely aware of the intangibles that go into inspiration. Out of respect for them, she lets them work. She grants them their sphere while she concentrates on hers.

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.