“It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.” — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. — Bret Easton Ellis Better world Copy Share Image
“There's a moment of sheer panic when I discover Paul's apartment overlooks the park” — Bret Easton Ellis Panic Copy Share Image
It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible. — Bret Easton Ellis Anything is possible Copy Share Image
But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.” — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that… — Bret Easton Ellis Autobiographical Copy Share Image
“My nightly blood lust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“You don't know what torture is. You don't know what you're talking about. You really don't know what you're talking about.” — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is… — Bret Easton Ellis Book Copy Share Image
I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“Careless and not particularly biting, it was easier to shrug off than anything in the first book which depicted me as an… — Bret Easton Ellis Books Copy Share Image
“I am a ghost to this man, I’m thinking. I am something unreal, something not quite tangible, yet still an obstacle of… — Bret Easton Ellis Ghost Copy Share Image
“I realize I have nothing to say to Trent Burroughs as I tell him, “I’ve been in New York the last four… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
You don't market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It's a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what… — Bret Easton Ellis Books Copy Share Image
“I want to watch it again tonight even though I know I won't have enough time to masturbate over the scene where… — Bret Easton Ellis Death Copy Share Image
At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
So…” Kimball looks at his book helplessly. “There’s nothing you can tell me about Paul Owen?” “Well.” I sigh. “He led what… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“I stopped at the front desk, about to complain to the doorman, when I was confronted with a NEW doorman, my age… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
She laughs and looks out the window and I think for a minute that she's going to start to cry. I'm standing… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“No, really Patrick. What do you want me to call you?" King, I'm thinking. King, Evelyn. I want you to call me… — Bret Easton Ellis Friends Copy Share Image
“There's no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I've started drinking my own urine. I laugh spontaneously at… — Bret Easton Ellis Average person Copy Share Image
“He wasn't, I realized when I read those scenes concerning Blair and myself, close to any of us-- except of course to… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“These questions are punctuated by other questions, as diverse as "Will I ever do time?" and "Did this girl have a trusting… — Bret Easton Ellis Cursing Copy Share Image
“...a flood of reality. I get an odd feeling that this is a crucial moment in my life and I'm startled by… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“Things changing, failing apart, fading, another year, a few more moves, a hard person who doesn't give a fuck, a boredom so… — Bret Easton Ellis Another year Copy Share Image
What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists? — Bret Easton Ellis Beer Copy Share Image
I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general. — Bret Easton Ellis Issues Copy Share Image
I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
