Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.

I don't sign contracts for my books.

Don't sign your publishing away.

Don't sell your publishing.

So don't applaud. Just send me the check.

Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money.

As an individual doing a podcast, you don't get even remotely rich. It's not something to do for money.

Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care.

Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights.

I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff.

I don't take story input from fans.

I do them all for the money, I really do.

'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, 'The Garden Party,' while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not.

I think that one of the most useful applications of the Creator's Bill of Rights is that it clearly indicates for creators what rights they have at the outset.

Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.

Because we self-published 'Draculas,' we control the rights. Not just for now, but forever.

Typically, when you sell your story rights to a movie production company, they can do whatever they want with it. The writer is typically not involved anymore.

I just like to work and get paid.

It's hard for new artists to keep hold of what they own.

If you had told me in 1968 that 20 years later I'd still be receiving wonderful royalty checks for those three years, I wouldn't have believed you.

I'm more than blessed to be able to play a PE sport for money.

I'm just here to show up and fight and then get my money and go home.

If you have sold the film rights to somebody, take your money and leave. If the producers need you, they will call you. But you have to be careful about who you are selling your book to, and ensure that it is not tampered with.

There's no art where there's no fee.