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
cancer giving sin
Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
world lifetime contentious
The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.
jesus fight-club-novel written
Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?
stories use nonfiction
You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.
book long literature
I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.
selling establishment selling-out
I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.
trying stories way
I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.
writing sequels
I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.
quality stuff amy
If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.
growing-up parent proof
You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.
children lying exercise
Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy.
adventure horror-stories true-life
We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.
pain war nice
Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. That’s the earth. Why it goes around. We’re the rocks. And what happens to us—the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuse—why, that’s just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright.
thinking people want
The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.