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
frontier left
The only frontier left is the world of intangibles. Everything else is sewn up too tight.
chick life
There will always be cougars outside. It's such a chick thing to think that life should just go on forever.
erosion rocks people
In the big factory of perfecting human souls, the Earth was kind of tumbler. The sale as the kind people use to polish rocks. All souls come here to rub the sharp edges off each other. This isn't suffering. It's erosion.
fight-club-book break something-better
Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
resolution ifs
If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.
lists lines shows
Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.
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.
dope laughing cry
Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
becoming-one becoming stories
I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.
like-love looks invisible-monsters
Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.
waiting-in-line people looks
Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.
nouns blame
We all have some proper noun to blame.
zombie made iceberg
If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better movie.