Chuck Palahniuk Writers Quotations

My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories.

Why do the lives of writers seem so... train-wrecky?

When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years - they laughed; they didn't have any kind of shock reaction.