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
beautiful cat thinking
Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.
smart people littles
To a certain extent everybody has a certain sort of way of being a persona that they learn how to be when they're really little. They figure out that if they're really funny, or really pretty, or if they work really, really hard or are really smart, then that's what's going to get them by. That is what is going to make people like them.
today sun come-up
Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.
hate mean news
I hate how on TV they have to fill so many minutes. It means they have to put in anything, and by doing so they sort of trivialize news; news becomes this commodity that they need to fill dead time between commercials with.
children dying
You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics.
mistake past stories
I'm really glad that I made a lot of mistakes, poorly chose my friends throughout my twenties, and didn't have a rocket trajectory that set me on one path without making any mistakes or having any setbacks. The older I get, the more I realize that it's all of these failed, horrible things from my past, and the stories that they generated, that are the things I will draw on for the rest of my life.
life want scar
I don't want to die without any scars.
taken fate knowing
I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.
real stupid discovery
Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.
halloween night thinking
What we think of as Halloween is really the product of media barons, city mayors, and candy-makers. You know, before the 1920s, Halloween was really a terrible, terrible night.
love life dream
The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
sex wall writing
When I first started writing, there was no way I'd write a sex scene. That just seemed impossible. That's why in "Fight Club" all the sex happens off-screen. It's all just a noise on the other side of the wall or the ceiling. I just couldn't bring to write in a scene like that. So one of the challenges with "Choke" was I wanted to write sex scenes until I was really comfortable just writing them in a very mechanical way.
letting-go dark losing
I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
real people special
The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.