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If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

Chuck Palahniuk
Change, Death, Character

There's a big difference between "not caring" or being "nihilistic" about a topic and simply not being enrolled by the drama presented by other people. Just because my characters choose not to react in standard, socially-appropriate ways - that does not mean they don't care. They just reject ordinary dramas.

Chuck Palahniuk
Drama, Character, Mean
Source: www.bookslut.com

No, none of us seem so very real. We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other. Any real truth, any precious fact will always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe.

Chuck Palahniuk
Real, Believe, Character

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

Chuck Palahniuk
Being Alone, Character, Boring
Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2002.

You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the author. If you are, in fact, my continuing author, then killing you will end my existence as well. Small loss. Such a life, as your puppet, is not worth living. But… If I destroy you and your dreck script, and I still exist… then my existence will be glorious, for I will become my own master.

Chuck Palahniuk
Children, Father, Character
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.242, Random House

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

Chuck Palahniuk
Drama, Character, Idiot
"Interview: Chuck Palahniuk on 'Choke'". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. September 24.

As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.

Chuck Palahniuk
Children, Father, Character
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.242, Random House

A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better.

Chuck Palahniuk
Baby, Character, Play

I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing with his hand or foot, I can look up and study people and find compelling gestures that I can harvest. Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.

Chuck Palahniuk
Character, Writing, Hands

You don't have ideas when you're sitting in that sort of sterile little place, and you're not around people. The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone. I just need that dynamic of other people around me to get my work done.

Chuck Palahniuk
Character, Ideas, People
Source: www.avclub.com

Every character sees the world through a framework of education and experience that they're proud experts about. To write a character, find out what they know best, and THEN you'll know how they'll describe a "hot day." Or a "pretty girl."

Chuck Palahniuk
Girl, Writing, Character
Source: www.bookslut.com

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