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
mistake smart choices
It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.
identity stories life-story
What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?
age lasts taste
Taste is such a changing thing. Every age our tastes change. But the things that really last aren't necessarily the best or the worst or the most loved things, but they're the things that make the biggest impression.
facts true-fact
The damaged love the damaged. True fact.
adventure years law
People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe, organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become. With the whole world property-lined and speed-limited and zoned and taxed and regulated, with everyone tested and registered and adressed and recorded. Nobody had left much room for adventure, except maybe the kind you could buy. [...] The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.
alive reputation praise
Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.
people listening just-listen
I spend most of my life just listening to people.
children sibling believe
A child who is disillusioned abruptly, by his peers or siblings, being ridiculed for his faith and imagination, may choose never to believe in anything- tangible or intangible- again. To never trust or wonder.
guilt dinosaurs innocence
This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.
teacher fighting path
The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free.
children father character
You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the author. If you are, in fact, my continuing author, then killing you will end my existence as well. Small loss. Such a life, as your puppet, is not worth living. But… If I destroy you and your dreck script, and I still exist… then my existence will be glorious, for I will become my own master.
mistake thinking biggest-mistake
It's just the biggest mistake I could think to make
our-world people world
This is our world now, and those ancient people are dead.
running fun book
I realized that my book readings were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk through the whole event and I needed to make it more interesting. I wanted to be running and jumping and do something so that the event would be so exciting. I had to trick myself into having fun every time.