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
morning sex white
People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered sex offender and I'd just been released from prison and was being forced to do community-service work. I was a murderer, an arsonist - all these horrific things had been projected on me because no one knew what to make of this white guy who showed up and made toast at 5 o'clock every morning.
life fall perfect
I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.
stars believe rocks
We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
humanity claims quitting-your-job
If You Don’t Claim Your Humanity, You Will Become A Statistic.
hell delivery
We're all going overnight express delivery straight to Hell.
night long
To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.
emotional years issues
With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.
real islands people
And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.
next stage form
Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.
fight-club-book disaster destruction
Only after disaster can we be resurrected.
perfect four might
I have to have everything in my life completely fixed and perfect and cleaned up and I have to be complete with everyone in my life and I have seven days in which to do that. So I might make it to day three or four, but I've never made it all the way to day seven.
writing connections done
It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.
life answers
The answer is there is no answer.
wealth nothing-to-lose loses
Having nothing to lose is the new wealth.