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
giving parent trying
First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
creativity cutting ideas
Somehow people have been sold on the idea that only professionals can entertain them, that only professionals can sing or tell jokes. And people are cut out of this creativity loop, and creativity is being limited to these large, centralized voices.
mistake haunted-houses ifs
If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.
inspirational life inspiring
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
tragedy evolution natural
Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.
mistake stupid
We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time.
fought hide sound turn
My parents used to fight a lot, and I think they fought a lot at night, and they would turn the television up to hide the sound of their fighting.
religion
My goal is never to make fun of religion.
Movie brawls tend to be bloodless and quick.
allowed boston
I've got two dogs; they're Boston terriers, and they're allowed everywhere.
I don't think 'Guts' could get financed as a movie.
I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65.
men nowhere risky
The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.
noodles prisoners sending
I have a lot of fans who are in the prison system, where ramen noodles are a kind of staple. Prisoners are always sending me recipes.