Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

About Chuck Palahniuk:

Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk is an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as transgressional fiction.
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'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

Chuck Palahniuk

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Chuck Palahniuk

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

Chuck Palahniuk

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Chuck Palahniuk

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

Chuck Palahniuk

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

Chuck Palahniuk

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

Chuck Palahniuk

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

Chuck Palahniuk

You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.

Chuck Palahniuk

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

Chuck Palahniuk

Crap has always happened, crap is happening, and crap will continue to happen.

Chuck Palahniuk

The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a ...

Chuck Palahniuk

For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness of hippies.

Chuck Palahniuk

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

Chuck Palahniuk

In 'Diary,' the motto really is: 'Where Do You Get Your Inspiration?' It coaches us to be aware of our motives and not just be a reaction to the circumstances around us.

Chuck Palahniuk

Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to bu...

Chuck Palahniuk

When the 'Fight Club' movie was going into production, I quit my job so I could write full-time.

Chuck Palahniuk

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm shocked by the deeply personal things I've put into books without realizing it.

Chuck Palahniuk

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

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You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.

Chuck Palahniuk

Author Bio

  • NameChuck Palahniuk
  • DescriptionAmerican novelist, essayist
  • BornFebruary 21, 1962
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Journalist; Essayist
  • WorksFight Club; Choke; Rant