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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My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl.

Chuck Palahniuk

If you don't believe what other people believe, then they'll accuse you of being nihilistic.

Chuck Palahniuk

To be honest, I hate silence.

Chuck Palahniuk

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

Chuck Palahniuk

More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.

Chuck Palahniuk

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

Chuck Palahniuk

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

Chuck Palahniuk

Masochism is a valuable job skill.

Chuck Palahniuk

I just don't want to die without a few scars.

Chuck Palahniuk

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

Chuck Palahniuk

People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves.

Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

Chuck Palahniuk

I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.

Chuck Palahniuk

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

Chuck Palahniuk

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.

Chuck Palahniuk

If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better movie.

Chuck Palahniuk

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

Chuck Palahniuk

The answer is there is no answer.

Chuck Palahniuk

We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax.

Chuck Palahniuk

To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

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I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.

Chuck Palahniuk

Author Bio

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