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
stories
Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.
way littles turns
You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.
dog reality thinking
Rant Casey used to say, "No matter what happens, it's always now..." Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we live in the present moment of reality, and no matter what's come before, no matter how much we loved a person or a dog, when it attacks us we'll react to that moment of danger.
notebook dog writing
My writing process isn't a very organized thing. The actual writing part is a tiny part of my life. I often write in public. I bring my laptop or write freehand in notebooks. Then, I'll read through them while I exercise or walk the dog. The very last thing I do is the sitting alone at the computer part.
littles reminders built
Some little part of themselves for someone in the future to discover. Maybe a thought. We were here. We built this. A reminder.
taught values worthless
Find value in what we've been taught is worthless.
weather today resignation
The weather today is partly angry, leading to resignation and ultimatums.
art real suffering
You'll need to suffer to make any real art.
children writing ideas
As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case. After I gave up television, I found I could carry longer and longer stories or ideas in my head and put them together until I was carrying an entire short story. That's pretty much when I started writing.
couple aspirin drink
A couple drinks. A couple aspirin. Repeat.
television alarms clock
Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.
drunk attention half
If you're not drunk and half naked by this point, you're not paying attention.
past thinking phrases
You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.
reading editors phones
I have a secret goal with my editor - he has asthma and uses his inhaler, and after I send him a new manuscript, I'll have his assistant phone me and tell me how many times he had to get his inhaler out while reading a draft. It's my secret laugh meter.