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
gets stories twisted
My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl.
memories adventure stories
At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.
becoming-one becoming stories
I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.
real people stories
You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.
writing simple stories
The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.
mind stories resentment
Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.
stories use nonfiction
You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.
trying stories way
I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.
adventure horror-stories true-life
We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.
needs stories our-lives
Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone.
facts stories problem
The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact.
suicide missing stories
Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.
thinking scary-stories echoes
That’s how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something we’d like to think we’ve grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It’s something you’d hoped was healed.
mind machines stories
A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine