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
appear book choke comedy coming diagnosed dying lung meant plot privately promote public save trying version
In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother - the plot of Choke - while privately I was caring for my own dying mother. It was torture.
people trying
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.
always-trying touching heartbreaking
I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.
expectations listening trying
I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.
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.
fall trying falling-apart
No matter how much I try and hide this, bit by bit, I start to fall apart.
forever trying lasts
Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.
children book always-trying
What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.
mistake trying birth-life
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
letting-go trying hitting-bottom
Stop trying to control everything, and just let go..let go
thinking choices trying
Ultimately, everyone is acting out of what they feel is the best choice. In a way, they're all trying to improve the world. And I think that those basic choices make the world a better place.
giving parent trying
First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
bit church falling life trying
Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die.
art crowded director guys looking looks man means sculptor trying tyler
The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.Like Tyler says, even a souffle' looks pumped.