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
essence doors police
The police are asking through the bedroom door, why did I make a batch of strawberry daiquiris before I called them? Because we were out of raspberries. Because, can't they see, it just does not matter. Time was not of the essence.
giving-up mistake thinking
This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.
evil world invisible-monsters
Find good in what the world says is evil.
house burning-down generations
What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?
waiting-in-line people looks
Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.
intelligent next needs
Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.
literature human-nature sometimes
Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.
suicide differences literature
The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.
change people way
Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.
fall thinking leaving
I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.
writing thinking surprise
Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.
owning-a-pet adorable literature
Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
writing simple stories
The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.
book sick joy
Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.