Chuck Palahniuk
From BillionQuotes
Chuck Palahniuk (born 1962), novelist and freelance journalist.
Contents |
[edit]
On Fight Club
- "I think they've always gone on. I've gotten some irate letters from oldsters saying 'We did this in the 1930s. You didn't invent anything.' And I'm like, 'Gramps, you should have put a name on it and sold it, because that’s all I did.'" -
- on the creation of Fight Club
- Source: an interview with Rolling Stone, September 19, 2002
- "Wow. Bummer. I can't control that, you know? All I can control is how much fun it is for me to do it. And beyond that, I can't control whether people are going to go to it, whether they're going to like it, how they're going to interpret it. I can't control it, so I don't even worry about it."
- on the reactions of fans to Fight Club
- Source: an interview with The Onion AV Club, November 13, 2002
[edit]
On television
- "I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television."
- Source: an interview with the San Francisco Bay Guardian, October 30, 2002
[edit]
On the future
- "The first step -- especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money -- the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art."
- Source: Closing remarks made on an eClass forum (Barnes & Noble University), December 5, 2004
[edit]
On selling out
- "Why have I sold out? You think I'm supposed to grow old, beating some trite old protest drum that people don't hear anymore? Please; protest is now just a backdrop for a Diesel clothing ad in a slick fashion magazine. My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way. It's time -- for me, at least -- to be clever and seduce people by entertaining them. I'll never be heard if I'm always ranting and griping."
- Source: You Ask The Questions, The Independent Review, March 25, 2004
[edit]
On death
- "How sweet! You still believe in death... that's just so... quaint. Well, sorry to pop your death bubble, but there's no such thing. So make the best of things. Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking. Don't waste good drugs on killing yourself. Share them with friends and have a party. Or send them to me."
- Source: You Ask The Questions, The Independent Review, March 25, 2004
[edit]
On religion
- "I love being with people. But I need a script, a role, something that will help me overcome my fears of rejection and shame. Most religions and belief systems provide a blueprint for some sort of community. And the religion’s leaders model a way of being. For example, in my book Choke, a character enacts his own death and resurrection every night – as does the narrator in Fight Club. Here’s Jesus, allowing himself to look terrible in front of his peers. That’s the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public."
[edit]
Attributed
- "I don't care what they do with my book so long as the fucking check clears."
- on the Fight Club video game.
- In a reading/signing.
[edit]
