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
appear book choke comedy coming diagnosed dying lung meant plot privately promote public save trying version
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.
animal choke magnolias
The only thing that separates us from the animals...is we have pornography.
worst-enemy age choke
By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.
years easy choke
I've been choking to death for years. By now this should be easy.
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.
perfect imagine choke
Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.
waiting choke
After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
needs choke pathetic
It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.
who-we-are world choke
We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves.
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.