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
fighting stranger
The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.
media desire culture
Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?
lucky born
The lucky ones are just born dead.
powerful hands skills
So often with beginning writers, the story that they want to start with is the most important story of their life - my molestation, my this, my horrible drug addiction - they want to tell that most important story, and they don't have the skills to tell it yet, so it ends up becoming a comedy. A powerful story told poorly becomes funny, it just makes people laugh behind their hands.
gun mouths wonder
Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.
running self smoking
Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.
thinking voice mouths
Her voice makes me think of her mouth makes me think of her breath makes me think of her breasts.
mother soap ignore-me
You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.
jobs imagine whole-life
Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand.
school medicine drug
It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.
book doe movement
Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.
dollars bills way
The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill.
god-bless bless things-you-can-control
Control the things you can control. As for the rest - God bless it all.
fun unpacking way
I'm always identifying some fallacy in my own life. I'm sort of making fun of myself by exploring and unpacking just why I'm sort of automatically thrown to be a certain way.