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
determination ideas talent
I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they gave up; they stopped. The biggest talent you can have is determination.
matter no-matter-what rant
No matter what happens, it’s always now.
fun bigs playtime
It’s a fun playtime. Please, don’t kill it with big words.
focus distraction
These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics.
thinking sky standing
It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.
people defining overcoming
More and more people are defining themselves not by what they are about, but by what they are against, what they are overcoming, the thing that is wrong with them.
kids men practice
A guy's calling to say he's failing algebra II. Just as a point of practice, I say, Kill yourself. A woman calls and says her kids won't behave. Without missing a beat, I tell her, Kill yourself. A man calls to say his car won't start. Kill yourself. A woman calls to ask what time the late movie starts. Kill yourself. She asks, "Isn't this 555-1327? Is this the Moorehouse CinePlex? I say, Kill yourself. Kill yourself. Kill yourself.
good-friend forever want
I'm not so much a good friend as I'm the savior who wants you to worship him forever.
matter way want
No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.
long enemy world
After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.
moving responsibility people
People who don't want to get on with their lives, and don't want to accept responsibility for the direction of their lives want to hang out with other people who don't want to accept responsibility or move on, and so you find that your entire culture around you are people who are just like you, because that's what's comforting.
emotional realization chaos
Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.
training shapes might
Or maybe...just maybe this whole process is our training wheels towards something bigger. If we can reflect and know our lives, we might stay awake and shape our futures.
war hero memorial
Seek midday nourishment. Visit memorial acclaimed war hero Colonel Sanders.