Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk
Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniukis an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He is the author of the award-winning novel Fight Club, which also was made into an acclaimed film of the same name...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 February 1962
CityPasco, WA
CountryUnited States of America
call
My father used to call me 'bird bones' and, well, the name fits.
losing love worse
The only thing worse than losing at love was winning.
count dead love meet time
The only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.
job
When the 'Fight Club' movie was going into production, I quit my job so I could write full-time.
banned few life seem
Few things in life seem more sexy than a banned book.
alone books elevated filthy isolation somebody taken
My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people.
audiences books disdain dumber readers theory younger
My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's reader is smarter.
gets stories twisted
My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl.
compared dread larger means
I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a grown-up means doing every part of the larger task.
last less life physical prove
If we can prove an afterlife, then we have less pressure to make our physical life last forever.
anecdotes bring illustrate interact
I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes.
For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.
advice best choose great poorly writers
My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories.
both love works
That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.