Latest Chuck Palahniuk Quotes from Interviews

• I think it's just a matter of time before everybody realizes that I'm kind of a romance novelist ... that these are all stories about people kind of falling back in love or struggling with relationships. Even Fight Club was just a big romantic ending.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Struggle, Fall, Fighting

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

• I think that young people are less attached to items and objects now. They're less attached to consuming things and accruing things because they see it as a system that doesn't necessarily work and give them a sense of adulthood and fulfillment. They're much more in tune with wanting to achieve a skill, a form of self-expression, or a body of knowledge that fulfills the same function, fulfills their adulthood.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Pensar, Dar, Personas

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

• A good story isn't the one that shuts everyone down and sort of leaves them in silent awe. A good story is one that, even before you finish the anecdote, you can see their eyes shining because it has so resonated with something from their own lives that everyone in the group has a version of the same story and they cannot wait to tell it, and that they're going to compete to make their version even more extreme than your version. So your version is just a seed.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Eye, Waiting, Shining

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

• As the stupidest person in the room, I always had the most to gain.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  El más estúpido

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

• The same architect who designed the Seattle fair's futuristic Science Center, with its lacy Gothic arches and spires, Minoru Yamasaki, was hired to design the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Seattle had promised fairgoers a glimpse of the world that would exist in 2001. That year eventually unfolded as something less than the dream we'd imagined.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dream, Years, Design

• I didn't use anybody's story. I used the context and the structure of the situation. People were so, so desperate to tell their story and begin to digest their experience - like turning it into a story - that after the fist few weeks I could go with a pad and pencil and take notes. People didn't seem at all bothered by that.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Stories, Use

  "Chuck Palahnuik On "Choke"". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. September 24, 2008.

• You could go church and you could describe your worst behavior, your worst self, and despite your worst behavior you would be forgiven and then redeemed and then accepted back into the community through communion. So you didn't have to carry this burden your entire life. Once a week you went someplace you went someplace where you could really look terrible and be loved despite how terrible you were.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Self, Community, Church

  "Chuck Palahnuik On 'Choke'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. September 24, 2008.

• My theory is that church used to be that place. Instead of being a place where you went to look good, it was a place where you could risk going every week to look your worst.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Risk, Church, Looks

  "Chuck Palahnuik On "Choke"". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. September 24, 2008.

• There is a social contract in "Fight Club" and in "Choke" where the protagonist has deceived a whole bunch of people. In "Choke" it's all of these people who think that they've saved his life, and really care about him because they've embraced him and they've been his saviors. In "Fight Club" it's all of these people who are dying of various diseases, and they thought that Edward Norton was also dying so they allowed him really strong pent-up emotions.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fuerte, Luchar, Pensar

  "Chuck Palahnuik On 'Choke'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. September 24, 2008.

• Siempre busco el contexto en el que la gente cuenta historias. En "El club de la lucha" son esos grupos de apoyo para moribundos, y en "Asfixia" son los grupos de recuperación de 12 pasos. En una novela son colonias de artistas; en otra, un diario que suelen llevar las esposas de los submarinistas para que, cuando su marido vuelva de servir en un submarino, tengan una relación del tiempo que ha pasado su cónyuge. Así que siempre busco, en primer lugar, un contexto de no ficción, porque puedes contar una historia más rocambolesca si utilizas un formato de no ficción.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Husband, Recovery, Fighting

  "Chuck Palahnuik On 'Choke'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. September 24, 2008.

• It's interesting because when David Fincher was making "Fight Club," he said, "It's a romance." And it really is. Almost everything I ever write is just a romance. And that needed to be sort of pointed up at the end of "Fight Club." The film has a very different ending than the book does.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Writing, Fighting

  "Chuck Palahnuik On 'Choke'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. September 24, 2008.

• I always really curious to see how people interpret things. I know my version, and I'm kind of bored with my version so I want to see their version.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Bored, Want

  "Chuck Palahnuik On 'Choke'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. September 24, 2008.

• When I first started writing, there was no way I'd write a sex scene. That just seemed impossible. That's why in "Fight Club" all the sex happens off-screen. It's all just a noise on the other side of the wall or the ceiling. I just couldn't bring to write in a scene like that. So one of the challenges with "Choke" was I wanted to write sex scenes until I was really comfortable just writing them in a very mechanical way.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sex, Wall, Writing

  "Chuck Palahnuik On "Choke"". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. September 24, 2008.

• Every character sees the world through a framework of education and experience that they're proud experts about. To write a character, find out what they know best, and THEN you'll know how they'll describe a "hot day." Or a "pretty girl."

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Girl, Writing, Character

  Source: www.bookslut.com

• Books can create a depth of story, a background of information and ideas, that televison and movies can't. Sure, the television shows may shock, but only on a superficial level. They'd never risk market share to really explore the issues. They report, but don't analyze or suggest any new ways for living our lives.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Ideas, Issues

  Source: www.bookslut.com

• Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet with other people, in forums from illness support groups to phone-sex hotlines, and learn what other people know best.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sex, Writing, Phones

  Source: www.bookslut.com

• The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of "comfort food" we expect to lull us to sleep.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Sleep, People

  Source: www.bookslut.com

• Everyone wants to be tested and challenged. Everyone would like a good, honest fight to exhaust their frustrations.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fighting, Frustration, Want

  Source: www.bookslut.com

• There's a big difference between "not caring" or being "nihilistic" about a topic and simply not being enrolled by the drama presented by other people. Just because my characters choose not to react in standard, socially-appropriate ways - that does not mean they don't care. They just reject ordinary dramas.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Drama, Carácter, Maldad

  Source: www.bookslut.com

• Everyone is equal and everyone is forced to participate; you can't just be a spectator.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Equal, Everyone Is Equal, Spectators

  Fuente: the-talks.com

• I'm fascinated by the whole issue of arousal addiction, which seems to be mostly a problem for young men.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Men, Issues, Addiction

  Fuente: the-talks.com

• My life has been about living like a monk and looking like a priest so that people will come up to me and tell me their most appalling stories. They have to make their confession to somebody, and it might as well be me.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Stories, Might

  Fuente: the-talks.com

• Abortion occurs so frequently in my stories. Abortion sort of synthesizes both sex and death. To have sex and death placed as close to one another as possible is always a goal of mine.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sex, Goal, Abortion

  Fuente: the-talks.com

• My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community of people - so that they find themselves accepted back by a world that they kind of fled from.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Community, Stories

  Fuente: the-talks.com

• A comedy ends with a wedding, and a tragedy ends with a funeral: you always have to juxtapose sex and death.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sex, Funeral, Tragedy

  Fuente: the-talks.com

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