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 books are all fantastically sentimental.

Chuck Palahniuk

I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there.

Chuck Palahniuk

People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge.

Chuck Palahniuk

We don't have friends, so we watch 'Friends' on TV.

Chuck Palahniuk

I usually write in my kitchen, which is a large, octagonal room that looks into woods - three big windows look out into the trees.

Chuck Palahniuk

I don't know if you ever really feel like you've made it.

Chuck Palahniuk

Once I start writing, I can't stop.

Chuck Palahniuk

I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes.

Chuck Palahniuk

A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine.

Chuck Palahniuk

I never think I'm making fun of my culture. In fact I'm making fun of myself, because I catch myself doing some very stupid things.

Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes, like in 'Invisible Monsters,' I get too out of control, and instead of a plot point every chapter, I want a plot point in every sentence.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month.

Chuck Palahniuk

I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that.

Chuck Palahniuk

There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.

Chuck Palahniuk

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.

Chuck Palahniuk

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'

Chuck Palahniuk

Writing gave me the world.

Chuck Palahniuk

Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.

Chuck Palahniuk

Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

Chuck Palahniuk

The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives.

Chuck Palahniuk

Author Bio

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