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
next stage form
Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.
forms future readers varied
The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.
classic denying dramatic failing form humor people presenting shocking socially
In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor.
losing love worse
The only thing worse than losing at love was winning.
count dead love meet time
The only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.
girl sweet jail
The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these jail girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour.
kings home giving
All object printed: Love me. Look me. Million speaking objects,begging. Crown American consumer with power of king, to rescue choose and give home or abandon here for expire.
people stranger
You kill strangers deliberately so you don't accidentally kill the people you love.
people house world
A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.
heart flats
Everyone has something wrong. And for a while, her heart just sort of flat lined.
people want knows
There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.
nice mouths coming-out
Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person.
useless someday dies
Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.
single college married
Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.