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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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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People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.
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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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Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money.
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I think it's more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who already read. There's a reason men don't read, and it's because books don't serve men. It's time we produce books that serve men.
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My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't feel those people can be threatened or intruded upon now. But I am enormously protective of the people who are currently in my life, my existing friends and family. That is where the curtain is drawn.
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I used to work as a volunteer in a hospice, but I don't have any nursing skills or cooking skills or anything, so I was what they call an escort. I would take people to the support groups every night, and I would have to sit sort of on the sidelines so I could take them back to hospice at the end of the meeting.
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I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or the way the world is.
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My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way.
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You kill strangers deliberately so you don't accidentally kill the people you love.
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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.
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There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.
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There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.
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You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.