Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk (novelist & freelance journalist, born 1961)
See also: Fight Club, Lullaby, Survivor, Choke
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
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
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
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.