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 next scene
Don't rush or force the ending. All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes.
sex writing difficult
Writing is like sex, if it's difficult you're not doing it right.
parent want folks
Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.
laughing people way
Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.
men people next
Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.
becoming invisible-monsters becoming-god
You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.
believe bored watches
And if you believe that we really have free will, then you know that God can't really control us. And since God can't control us, all God does is watch and change channels when He gets bored.
beautiful couple you-are-beautiful
When both of you are beautiful, neither of you is beautiful. Together, as a couple, you're less than the sum of your parts.
fluid
Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy.
writing done pieces
There's an old saying: 'No piece of writing is ever finished, it's just abandoned.' But my own rule is: No piece of work is done until you want to kill everyone involved in the publishing process, especially yourself.
stupid heart blue
Nothing feels as awful as pouring your heart out to some talk therapist, then realizing this so-called professional is actually vastly stupid and you've just professed your most secret secrets to some goon who's wearing one brown sock and one blue sock.
priorities legs hell
To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs.
mistake stupid world
The only biodiversity we're going to have left is Coke versus Pepsi. We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time.
stories use
Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.