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Chuck Palahniuk

Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk (; born February 21, 1962) is an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as transgressional fiction.

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

Tags: Old, Pride, Green

Chuck Palahniuk

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

Tags: Guitar

Chuck Palahniuk

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

Tags: Good, Lost, Excellent

Chuck Palahniuk

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

Tags: Live, May, Both

Chuck Palahniuk

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

Tags: Life, Best, Death

Chuck Palahniuk

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

Tags: Success, Must, Times

Chuck Palahniuk

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

Tags: Through, Means, Violent

Chuck Palahniuk

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

Tags: Graduation, Best, Said

Chuck Palahniuk

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

Tags: Great, Anything, American

Chuck Palahniuk

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

Tags: Women, Forget, Away

Chuck Palahniuk

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