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
artist skills feelings
Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.
mind stories resentment
Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.
book people
There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.
kind stages-of-life deny
We kind of deny the stages of life.
expectations listening trying
I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.
exercise ideas remarkable
Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.
dark despair awful
If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.
birthday years bully
Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.
fighting thinking two
I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.
believe punishment long
I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.
book writing competition
If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.
Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by.
airplane talking people
It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.
ideas people inventory
I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.