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
drama people scary
People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
ignorance world easier
Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.
crazy world binary
Since we do operate in a binary world, if there's something that cannot be this or that, it drives us crazy.
history invisible-monsters remembered
We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.
garden eden apples
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
degrees depends
In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.
wall gun brain
Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
pain writing exercise
I can manage my own pain. I can drink. I can go to the doctor and get a prescription. I can exercise. I can write a story about it. I've done it a million times! But I don't want to see the people I love tortured and suffering.
depression spiritual war
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
book surprise moments
There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.
There will always be an underground.
home breathing funeral
I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
jobs way life-is
I'm working harder than I have ever worked in my entire life, but what the hell, my life is my job now, and my job is my life and that's the way it should be.
fight-club-book break something-better
Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.