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
needs stories our-lives
Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone.
jobs children old-job
You’re training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.
years expectations choices
With every lecture, you’re forced to look again at every choice you’ve made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And after all these years, you see how little you have to work with, how limited your life and education have been. How scant was your courage and curiosity. Not to mention your expectations.
crazy fall shadow
Going to work just looked crazy. Eating another meal, ever, made about as much sense as planting tulip bulbs in the shadow of a falling atom bomb.
mirrors differences people
The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.
husband kids home
In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear.
happened happenings
Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.
dream american-dream sells
That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.
want just-love-me want-me
Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be.
teacher car people
you're a product just as much. a product of a product. the people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. the minister in your church, another product.
magic special world
There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.
advice scare world
Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future.
games people pairs
On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair.
giving photographer flash
The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.