when I was 14 I printed out Fight Club on a huge stack of printer paper and read it in my attic bedroom the first year of being fostered. I didn't know he was a fag because most people didn't talk about that stuff back then. I enjoyed his direct style and the way he didn't use quotation marks, and it's probably the biggest stylistic choice I've retained to this day. It varies from story to story (q-marks can help with complex convos, and Cupbearer uses playwriting format) but naked dialog feels real, dissociated, coming from inside the skull. Even stories where I mostly use quotation marks, will strip them when the scene calls for it.

I haven’t read him for a long time, but yeah, it had an impact on me <3