Chuck Palahniuk

Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars. ”

I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them. ”

I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict. ”

If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution. ”

I think America is just so in love with conflict. ”

My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories. ”

When working, my diet degrades to pizza three times a day, because I don't want to distract myself from anything. ”

While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps create a consistent mood for each book. ”

Every decade, we get a stunning collection of dynamic, heartbreaking short stories. In the past, those collections came from Barry Hannah, Mark Richard, and Thom Jones. ”

My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way. ”