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
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My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people.
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My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's reader is smarter.
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In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother - the plot of Choke - while privately I was caring for my own dying mother. It was torture.
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I think it's more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who already read. There's a reason men don't read, and it's because books don't serve men. It's time we produce books that serve men.
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There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.
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Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.
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Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.
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Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
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There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.
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If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.
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I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.
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There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction.
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To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your only means of subsistence.
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As a culture, we believe that if we kill something, we've killed the issue. That's why so many books end with death, why so many plays end with death, because it's full resolution. I'm always curious to know what happens after Romeo and Juliet die. In a way, that's the beginning of the story. Maybe beyond the story is even better.