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
Chuck Palahniuk quotes about
fought hide sound turn
My parents used to fight a lot, and I think they fought a lot at night, and they would turn the television up to hide the sound of their fighting.
religion
My goal is never to make fun of religion.
Movie brawls tend to be bloodless and quick.
allowed boston
I've got two dogs; they're Boston terriers, and they're allowed everywhere.
I don't think 'Guts' could get financed as a movie.
I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65.
men nowhere risky
The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.
noodles prisoners sending
I have a lot of fans who are in the prison system, where ramen noodles are a kind of staple. Prisoners are always sending me recipes.
absolutely filled homes people
There's a television show, 'Hoarders,' where people have those homes filled with stuff. Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.
actual crises emotional enormous events life lived movies watch
So many of our enormous emotional crises are lived through the media. They're lived through movies; they're lived through what we watch on television - they're not actual events in our life.
dismissed functions might primarily religion social throw useful worse
Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away.