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
littles stories should
After you hear even the shortest great story, it should fill you with a little bit of fear.
art mean men
The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.
needs choke pathetic
It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.
fighting doe clubs
No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
jobs skills valuable
Masochism is a valuable job skill.
art school life-is
What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.
truth shining looks
Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.
fall shadow-work association
Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.
people quality energy
Everyone holds a certain type of power. For young people, it's their youth, their attractiveness, and their energy. But they're terrified that as those qualities fade, what are they going to replace that form of power with?
appreciation joy how-you-feel
That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of your own existence.
airports rooms events
I don't remember the hotel rooms or the airports but I always remember the events.
fun writing important
The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing, entertaining, fun story to write and learn your writing chops with the least important things before you start applying them to the most important things.
real writing acclaim
Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.
book obtaining
My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.