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
atheist jesus atheism
Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do?
thinking media age
I think we're in an age starved for genuine experiences, instead of cathartic phony experiences through the media, structured, engineered experiences. And those are the fast food, the masturbation of experience. They don't really exhaust any aspect of ourselves; they don't make us any stronger.
eye wrinkles hair
Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The lining of your stomach is a document. The calluses on your hand tell all your secrets. Your teeth give you away. Your accent. The wrinkles around your mouth and eyes. Everything you do shows your hand.
beautiful want invisible
If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.
sex apples alcohol
Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.
writing way presenting
I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there.
being-alone people together
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
children believe imagination
In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.
sex jobs future
We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.
publishing-house self ideas
All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on the end and put in on the market. It's that kind of commoditization and completion of your life before you die - and this kind of imposition of a public idea of self that replaces the actual living self - that I find so frightening.
change death character
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
creativity criticism easy
It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
makeup islands people
We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same people are marooned on the same desert island for thirty seasons and never age or escape. They just wear more makeup. In a creepy way, those shows are maybe too authentic.
waiting choke
After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.