Chuck Palahniuk Characters Quotations

My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is breaking down. They're conflicted by the idea that they don't know what's next. You could call it Kierkegaard's leap of faith, when you get tired of sort of reinventing yourself on a very superficial level.

The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives.

I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.