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
death hero names
Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.
feelings starting starting-point
The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.
white individuality black
Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.
writing ideas people
I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I write the way some people do drugs.
father writing fighting
And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss thought I was writing about his boss. People really put themselves, you know, in the shoes of the narrator.
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.