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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There will always be an underground.

Chuck Palahniuk

Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by.

Chuck Palahniuk

As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?

Chuck Palahniuk

I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.

Chuck Palahniuk

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.

Chuck Palahniuk

Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer.

Chuck Palahniuk

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

Chuck Palahniuk

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

Chuck Palahniuk

Sundays tend to be a day where just I do nothing but visit people. It's kind of like trick-or-treating.

Chuck Palahniuk

My books didn't fit a marketing niche.

Chuck Palahniuk

I wouldn't get nearly as many books written if I lived in New York. The Columbia Gorge is fantastic. When the sun shines, I just want to be outdoors.

Chuck Palahniuk

I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.

Chuck Palahniuk

My father used to call me 'bird bones' and, well, the name fits.

Chuck Palahniuk

My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectly with the comic-con crowd.

Chuck Palahniuk

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.

Chuck Palahniuk

I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves.

Chuck Palahniuk

My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way.

Chuck Palahniuk

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

Chuck Palahniuk

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

Chuck Palahniuk

I haven't shoplifted since I was 13.

Chuck Palahniuk

I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.

Chuck Palahniuk

Author Bio

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