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The strength of film is its ac...

The strength of film is its accessibility and immediacy. But the strength of books is that freedom to really depict anything you want because people are going to be reading it in private. So, I'm always trying to write with the immediacy and the constant motion of film but I'm also trying to write with the complete freedom of subject matter that books have.

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Screenwriters get paid a hell ...

Screenwriters get paid a hell of a lot more money but their level of frustration seems to be so high that I don't want that.

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When I see people talking on t...

When I see people talking on the internet about me or my work it's almost always more a description of themselves and so I never really think of myself as anything more than just who I always was.

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Public taste changes and the a...

Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of the moment and what people will like right now; the idea is to somehow keep yourself in the public memory so that as taste evolves it will eventually come to embrace your thing. So, it's about writing to be remembered rather than writing to be liked.

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The one thing I cannot stand i...

The one thing I cannot stand is when I do interviews, when I interview people, and I listen to the tapes and I hear myself talking and sort of stumble and stammer, or I hear the horrible sound of my own voice, or God forbid I see myself on video, there is that complete revulsion with seeing how I occur in the world.

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I take pens and I write on the...

I take pens and I write on the inside of my arm. When I'm with people and somebody says a really fascinating anecdote, or fact, or phrase, I'll write it on the inside of my arm. At the end of the day, I'll take the very best things that are on my arm and I'll copy them into a notebook that I always carry and only when the weather is absolutely terrible will I really key the very best of that notebook into the computer. At that point, it's all sort of censored twice - only the best things go from the arm to the book and

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Demons are former celebrities ...

Demons are former celebrities who prey on their own insecurities.

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And it [Fight Club novel] was ...

And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss thought I was writing about his boss. People really put themselves, you know, in the shoes of the narrator.

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As if you cut open a rag doll ...

As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beating heart and blood. A lot of hot, sticky blood.

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If your body is a temple, you ...

If your body is a temple, you can pile up too much deferred maintenance. If your body is a temple, mine was a real fixer-upper.

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Without true chaos, we can nev...

Without true chaos, we can never have true peace.

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That quest for something prett...

That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love.

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Every generation wants to be t...

Every generation wants to be the last.

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Still, it's nice to have one p...

Still, it's nice to have one person who knows all your secrets.

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I'm a toxic waste byproduct of...

I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.

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Self improvement is masturbati...

Self improvement is masturbation...

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Inside me is the same desperat...

Inside me is the same desperate hope I have watching the ravenous dead and thinking, Oh please, oh please, oh please. The craving inside of me is to be clutched at by some dead girl. To put my ear to her chest and hear nothing. Even getting munched on by zombies beats the idea that I'm only flesh and blood, skin and bone. Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.

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Sobriety is okay enough,' Den...

Sobriety is okay enough,' Denny says, 'but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?

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The future you have, tomorrow,...

The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.

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If you love something set it f...

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

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