I don't know if someone else has posted it, but there's a good little craft book called
The 10% Solution, which focuses on weeding out weak and unnecessary words from your prose. Things like filters and so on.
Self Editing for Fiction Writers is also good.
I wouldn't tell most writers to worry too much about getting the wording right on the first draft, though, unless you're one of those writers who excels at revising as you go. A lot of people can bog themselves down and kill their inner muse if they worry too much about things like filters and so on while they're still delineating their plot and character arc.
I think what Palahniuk is possibly getting at is that many authors do well by "overwriting" their first drafts, then cutting the fat from subsequent iterations (because yes, some things are better "told," rather than shown). It can be harder to flesh something out when it's sparse or limp than it is to rein in something that's too bloated.
But every writer is different, so like all advice given on the web about writing, even by famous authors, be willing to try it if it sounds like something that could help with a problem you have, but YMMV. There is no writing process that works for all, or even most, writers.