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
writing looks retrospect
So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can’t control life, at least you can control your version.
mind machines stories
A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine
blind stealing photograph
Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own.
dream jobs kids
As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person.
regret confirmation daisies
Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere.
love-is skills
Love is a skill you learn.
emotional weather today
Just for the record, the weather today is increasing turmoil with a possible physical and emotional breakdown.
energy exhausting
It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.
want whole-life anesthetics
I want my whole life lined with a topical anesthetic.
heart knives too-late
You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late.
mustache risk stripes
At the last minute, I couldn't wear the Hitler mustache because Tiger Stripe ate it; and then I didn't want to take my kitty and risk his coughing up some big Nazi hairball on someone's front stoop.
god christian father
If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God?
believe stories moments
I really believe it's the moments we can't talk about that become the rest of our lives. It's the moments we can't process by telling a story that destroy us in the end.
book believe play
As a culture, we believe that if we kill something, we've killed the issue. That's why so many books end with death, why so many plays end with death, because it's full resolution. I'm always curious to know what happens after Romeo and Juliet die. In a way, that's the beginning of the story. Maybe beyond the story is even better.