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
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.
body looks x-files
There are bodies buried everywhere you just have to know where to look.
creating risk attacking
I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.
years two feelings
New carpet will exude poisonous formaldehyde for up to two years after it'd been laid. I know the feeling.
invention letdowns i-realized
I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.
cry hardest i-can
More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.
love-is bullshit soul
Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.
past way forget-the-past
Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.