Friday, October 17, 2008

The First Step

The first step — especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money — the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

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Lovely timing.

3 comments:

adi mari said...

where is this from? i grew out of chuck palahniuk's novels (most are rather testosterone-driven or end up sounding pretty the same after a few of them) but i still love his essays and non-fiction.

"to model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in."
love that.

katherina said...

i don't know. i just saw them in Google Reader. hehehe. i checked out his website and found this book entitled Diary. i want it!

adi mari said...

hmmm. maybe it's from one of his essays. he has a few articles on his website too, and a lot of writing workshop things, if you're interested :)

i have Diary! yeah it's one of my favorites. it's the only book i read of him (besides Stranger than Fiction) that isn't such a Dude Book like Fight Club or Choke.

i shall email you an excerpt from Diary. :)