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
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.
people community stories
My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community of people - so that they find themselves accepted back by a world that they kind of fled from.
mistake trying birth-life
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
age remember
By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.
special snowflake fight-club-book
We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.
thinking steps firsts
I think standardization is really the first step to something being commodified.
death truth real
Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.
grateful thinking people
If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.
differences want knows
I don't know the difference between what I want and what I'm trained to want.
book break-through people
My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic.
people waiting turns
People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.
mistake writing adventure
Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.