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
literature human-nature sometimes
Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.
suicide differences literature
The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.
owning-a-pet adorable literature
Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
literature feels
More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.
coping-mechanisms giving literature
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
funny thinking literature
It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.
book long literature
I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.
writing addiction literature
I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
literature different wake-up
If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
future promise literature
When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
fake-people gun literature
Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.
fall reality literature
The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.
life literature want
If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.
one-day literature realizing
You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.