# Quote — Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

> "The paradox of being a professional artist. How we spend our lives trying to express ourselves well, but we have nothing to tell. We want creativity to be a system of cause and effect."

- Author: [Chuck Palahniuk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk.md)
- Book: [Diary](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/diary.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diary_(novel)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/diary/the-paradox-of-being

## More from this book

> "Leave this island before you can't."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/diary/leave-this-island.md)

> "Because you believed in her so much more than she did. You expected more from her than she did from herself."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/diary/because-you-believed.md)

> "Dear sweet Peter. Can you feel this?"

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/diary/dear-sweet-peter.md)