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
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.
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.