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
worst-enemy fight-club-novel you-choose
If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
eye insanity enlightenment
I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.
literature different wake-up
If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
reality skills law
I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.
sex goal abortion
Abortion occurs so frequently in my stories. Abortion sort of synthesizes both sex and death. To have sex and death placed as close to one another as possible is always a goal of mine.
future promise literature
When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
giving-up addiction tough
Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.
past your-future our-future
You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.
blood looks hello
HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.
people stories might
My life has been about living like a monk and looking like a priest so that people will come up to me and tell me their most appalling stories. They have to make their confession to somebody, and it might as well be me.
life death suicide
You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.
resolution ifs
If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.
people silence needs
We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics.
inspirational fighting settling
Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.