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
weather today denial
The weather today is an increasing trend towards denial.
lonely progress fields
The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.
world ships cruise
We're so structured and micromanaged, this isn't a world anymore, it's a damn cruise ship.
jobs
A writer’s job is to cultivate what can go wrong.
hate like-you possibility
What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn't like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that could happen.
people stories ghost
These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.
angel hands evil
Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.
toxic-waste dancing singing
I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of this world.... I am the toxic waste by-product of God's creation.
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.