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
smart independent men
I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not.
invention letdowns i-realized
I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.
coping-mechanisms giving literature
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
literature feels
More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.
records feels-right right-now
Just for the record, how I feel right now is very terrific.
frustration levels want
Screenwriters get paid a hell of a lot more money but their level of frustration seems to be so high that I don't want that.
today sun one-of-those-days
Today is just one of those days the sun comes out to really humiliate you.
dirty used feels
How I feel is cheap and used, dirty and humiliated. Dirty and tricked and thrown away.
mistake past stories
I'm really glad that I made a lot of mistakes, poorly chose my friends throughout my twenties, and didn't have a rocket trajectory that set me on one path without making any mistakes or having any setbacks. The older I get, the more I realize that it's all of these failed, horrible things from my past, and the stories that they generated, that are the things I will draw on for the rest of my life.
love-is skills
Love is a skill you learn.
greatest-treasure people twenties
I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.
growing-up stupid phases
Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.
together way hammers
Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.
dope laughing cry
Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?