So the story goes, you wrote Fight Club to disturb publishers even more because they had rejected Invisible Monsters due to its disturbing content. I think that's why so many writers were 'walking writers,' because walking puts you into a non-verbal environment.īS: Let's break the rules and talk about Fight Club a bit. I just need to be away from language so that my thoughts can be clear. Any writing rituals that you partake in depending on whether you're writing fiction or non-fiction?ĬP: For fiction, I need to have a non-verbal environment – I can have music, but I don't want words in my music, or I have to get up early in the morning before anyone inthe house decides to start talking. Victor Hugo would go to the barber every day and insisted on keeping his clippings John Cheever said he couldn't achieve his best work without having sex at least two to three times a week. So, it means looking at a lot of stories to find common devices, identifying those, and then teaching those to people, so it's not totally alien from fiction.īS: I was just reading a piece on the other day about twenty daily rituals of great thinkers. Right now, most of what I'm writing are lectures about the craft of writing. When I'm not writing fiction, I'm writing introductions for other people's books and writing small things. Are you ever not writing? Do you hate downtime?Ĭhuck Palahniuk: I spend a lot of my time not writing, but when I'm not writing, I'm usually putting together promotion or doing research. Give or take a year, you've managed to release a book nearly every year since 1999 when you released Survivor and Invisible Monsters. The second rule of Fight Club is that you can't talk about Fight Club.īut as the cinematic version of Palahniuk's novel celebrates its fifteenth anniversary, we broke the rules and talked at length about his new novel, Beautiful You, which comes out later this month his writing style and how he still pushes his publishers an alternative ending to Fight Club and the highly-anticipated Fight Club sequel coming out in graphic-novel form in 2015.īen Speggen: Let's start in the present: You have Beautiful You coming out this month and two releases – Make Something Up and the Fight Club sequel – coming out next year. The first rule of Fight Club is that you can't talk about Fight Club. He cast Edward Norton as the narrator and Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden – one of the most notable characters from late-twentieth-century fiction.Ĭhuck Palahniuk also isn't afraid to break the rules. Three years after the now-seminal cult classic hit stands in 1996 – the story of an ordinary, nameless man who finds a friend who wants him to punch him as hard as he can and not tell anyone about it and to help him make soap and engage in a little mischief and mayhem – director David Fincher secured the rights to take the story to the big screen. When publishers first rejected his novel Invisible Monsters because of its disturbing content, he wrote Fight Club as a means of showing them what truly disturbing would look like. Chuck Palahniuk isn't afraid to mess with people.
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