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
writing retrospect versions
That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.
tattoo book people
I see so many tattoos of my stuff on people - tattoos of my book covers, tattoos of quotes . . . it's kind of daunting sometimes.
want-something parent invisible-monsters
Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.
brother writing talking
My writing has to excite people and depict or include their experiences. That's part of my process - to go out and interact with people. It's very much like an archival process. I understand that the Brothers Grimm would go out and get people talking so they could document folk tales that weren't being documented any other way. I try to offer a little bit of myself - some experience from my life that evokes stories in other people.
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.