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
chaos choke true-peace
Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.
real discovery chaos
Our real discoveries come from chaos,
chaos true-peace
Without true chaos, we can never have true peace.
past chaos sometimes
Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.
emotional realization chaos
Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.
patterns chaos decipher
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.
exist germs god people
Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they couldn't see them.
apostle escape follow hard running
Every apostle or disciple, as much as they're running to follow their savior- they're running just as hard to escape something else.
people stuff wild
People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.
characters third
The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives.
crave forget matter sex
The thing about sex is no matter how much you crave it, you can forget it.
looks room three windows woods
I usually write in my kitchen, which is a large, octagonal room that looks into woods - three big windows look out into the trees.
adopt fringe model people presenting
I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves.
age god
At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.'