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
love hurt way
You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.
telephones world outside-world
I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.
fun ideas order
The ultimate joke was the idea that capitalism would eat its own feces in order to make money, that would make fun of itself if capitalism thought there was a buck in it.
parenting opiates parenthood
Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.
pain sacrifice space
Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.
inspirational fear taking-action
Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.
people stories use
I didn't use anybody's story. I used the context and the structure of the situation. People were so, so desperate to tell their story and begin to digest their experience - like turning it into a story - that after the fist few weeks I could go with a pad and pencil and take notes. People didn't seem at all bothered by that.
invisible-monsters just-love-me big-hair
Make me into anything, but just love me.
writing addiction literature
I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
worst-enemy fight-club-novel you-choose
If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
eye insanity enlightenment
I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.
literature different wake-up
If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
reality skills law
I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.
sex goal abortion
Abortion occurs so frequently in my stories. Abortion sort of synthesizes both sex and death. To have sex and death placed as close to one another as possible is always a goal of mine.