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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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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My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.
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In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.
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Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.
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Love is a skill you learn.
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So often with beginning writers, the story that they want to start with is the most important story of their life - my molestation, my this, my horrible drug addiction - they want to tell that most important story, and they don't have the skills to tell it yet, so it ends up becoming a comedy. A powerful story told poorly becomes funny, it just makes people laugh behind their hands.
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I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.
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For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.
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Masochism is a valuable job skill.
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With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to make an ongoing effort to consume this product and that the project is being consumed by just one person at a time. I really want to play to that strength because it's one of the few advantages books still have.
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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.