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 best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories.
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What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.
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Love and life belongs to great risk.
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I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.
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I thought 'Fight Club' was great as David Fincher's version.
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Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more.
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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.
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Every apostle or disciple, as much as they're running to follow their savior- they're running just as hard to escape something else.
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People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.
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The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives.
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The thing about sex is no matter how much you crave it, you can forget it.
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I usually write in my kitchen, which is a large, octagonal room that looks into woods - three big windows look out into the trees.
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I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves.
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At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.'