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
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.
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.