American - Novelist | February 21, 1962 -
If we can prove an afterlife, then we have less pressure to make our physical life last forever.
Chuck Palahniuk
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My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't invited to a party.' That always struck so true, and people always nod their heads when they hear that. Especially writers.
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I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that.
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David Fincher is a genius.
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Movie brawls tend to be bloodless and quick.
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People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge.
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I get a lot of letters from women who insist that 'Fight Club' is not just a guy thing. They insist that women have the same rage and need the same outlet.
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Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.
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I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case.
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Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.
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When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years - they laughed; they didn't have any kind of shock reaction.
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Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really well. And this is much better than setting fires, so keep it up.' That made me a writer.
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