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
talking miracle next
The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.
I am nothing, and not even that.
long cry faking-it
It's okay to cry as long as you're faking it.
practice surfing dying
Trust me, the being-dead part is much easier than the dying part. If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.
running anxiety drug
Everybody's still miserable in the same way they've always been miserable, and more and more of my friends - especially my male friends - find themselves taking anti-anxiety, psychotropic drugs. It seems like everybody I know is wondering if they're really who they are, or once the prescription runs out, will they become someone different?
kill-me
I'm in love. So kill me.
children people enthusiasm
If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.
past way
There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.
laughing challenges pace
The only place where you can really surprise or shock the reader, or make someone laugh, is on the lower righthand corner - the very last panel - so as you turn the page, the payoff is in the upper lefthand panel. To pace every story so that there's a setup and a payoff at the page turn was a huge challenge; it's a part of the medium and you really have to learn what can be done in the medium.
fighting stranger
The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.
media desire culture
Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?
lucky born
The lucky ones are just born dead.
powerful hands skills
So often with beginning writers, the story that they want to start with is the most important story of their life - my molestation, my this, my horrible drug addiction - they want to tell that most important story, and they don't have the skills to tell it yet, so it ends up becoming a comedy. A powerful story told poorly becomes funny, it just makes people laugh behind their hands.
gun mouths wonder
Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.