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
diet distract
When working, my diet degrades to pizza three times a day, because I don't want to distract myself from anything.
instead plot point
Sometimes, like in 'Invisible Monsters,' I get too out of control, and instead of a plot point every chapter, I want a plot point in every sentence.
david loved people turn
People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge.
david great
I thought 'Fight Club' was great as David Fincher's version.
I don't know if you ever really feel like you've made it.
eventually food
Every author has to eventually write a food book.
watch
We don't have friends, so we watch 'Friends' on TV.
I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there.
catch fact fun stupid
I never think I'm making fun of my culture. In fact I'm making fun of myself, because I catch myself doing some very stupid things.
dozen grandma romance
When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month.
death wishful
Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking.
born demanded entire life maintained peace seems throughout
I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.
folks movies passionate people readership
The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.
incredibly maybe parties people sort word
My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word for maybe a year, and I'll just be with people, going to parties and soaking up stories, and just sort of recharging all of my ideas.