Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

I have more ideas than I know what to do with. I guess I'm a bit of a fantasist and a daydreamer - all sorts of things come to me during the day.

I like to go to the gym with my girls, practice yoga, try new recipes, bake, have slumber parties, go to the beach, have adventures, book hunt, shop for new records, or road trip somewhere... anything that keeps me laughing and excited about the day, really. I like feeling free to do what I or my friends want to do on our days off.

Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.

I'm always intrigued by new challenges and things that I've never done before and new experiences. It sounds so simple, but the primary interest is just something that's good and instills within me some kind of gut feeling that feels like something that I'm passionate and excited about, and there can be multiple variables that can instill that. It can be simply a filmmaker, it can just be a character, it can just be the script, or a combination of all those things. But, I'm always just looking to do things that I've never done before, primarily.

The best ideas and the most useful and ground-breaking are often, though not always, in one sense, very simple ideas.

I don't know, it's dorky. Just like quotes and stuff. Something I want to see everyday or something I want to be there. I don't know. I can put a hole in the wall if I want. It's mine. It's very simple. It's a very tiny house, but I can do whatever I want to. I can rip up the terrible vinyl floor and recycle it. Just create a good space. A quiet place to be.

Imagination grows by exercise.

There is not room to swing a cat.

Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.

There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.

We need radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination.

Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.

Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It's not your way or my way; it's a better way, a higher way.

The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.

My idea of happiness is effortless happiness. The things that ground you. For me it's art and cooking, for example, and when I can be with my friends and the people I love and do simple things. That's when I'm the happiest.

The most creative people have learned to tolerate the slight discomfort of indecision for much longer and so, just because they put in more pondering time, their solutions are more creative.

There wasn't room to swing a cat there.

Like the theater, offering food and hospitality to people is a matter of showmanship, and no matter how simple the performance, unless you do it well, with love and originality, you have a flop on your hands.

I'm a very independent person, I love being alone, writing and doing music and stuff.

Sometimes you have to be clever.

I don't ever want to be bored, doing the same thing from 9 to 5. I've always loved pretending and being someone different.

To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.

Constructiveness is the human way.