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
realizing
You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.
husband recovery fighting
I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then in "Choke" it's 12-step recovery groups. In one novel it's artists' colonies, in another novel it's a diary form that submariners' wives typically keep so that when their husband comes back from serving on a submarine they have an accounting of their spouse's time. So I'm always looking for, number one, a non-fiction context - because you can tell a more outrageous story if you use a non-fiction form.
smile long teeth
You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.
love-is rocks bullshit
Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.
inspirational-life effort matter
All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.
fall lost-everything disaster
Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.
self community church
You could go church and you could describe your worst behavior, your worst self, and despite your worst behavior you would be forgiven and then redeemed and then accepted back into the community through communion. So you didn't have to carry this burden your entire life. Once a week you went someplace you went someplace where you could really look terrible and be loved despite how terrible you were.
fight-club-book used drapes
The things you used to own, now they own you.
fake-people real opera
some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.
life giving-up past
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
sex writing phones
Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet with other people, in forums from illness support groups to phone-sex hotlines, and learn what other people know best.
snuff
The damaged loves the damaged.
war issues population
Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue.
scare want invisible-monsters
Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.