“Her need is so immense that you become surrounded by it; this need is so enormous that you realize you can actually… — Bret Easton Ellis Control Copy Share Image
Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“How is your father?” she asks disinterestedly. “A contrivance,” I mutter. “A plot device.” — Bret Easton Ellis Metafiction Copy Share Image
what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“Danny is on my bed and depressed because Ricky was picked up by a break dancer at the Odyssey on the night… — Bret Easton Ellis Duran duran Copy Share Image
Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment. — Bret Easton Ellis Business Copy Share Image
“The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over… — Bret Easton Ellis Consequences Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when you’re standing in a crowd I feel those sultry dark eyes of yours stop on me. Are you too afraid… — Bret Easton Ellis Dark eyes Copy Share Image
The snowy owl has eyes that look just like mine, especially when it widens them. And while I stand there, staring at… — Bret Easton Ellis Bird Copy Share Image
I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something… — Bret Easton Ellis Cold Copy Share Image
“And later when we got into the car, he took a turn down a street that I was pretty sure was a… — Bret Easton Ellis Dead end Copy Share Image
I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“I can't disagree." I laugh weakly, walking him to the door. As he leaves I'm wondering and not wondering what happens in… — Bret Easton Ellis Big idea Copy Share Image
“She said that you--" "I don't care what she said." I stand up. "Everyone lies." "Hey," he says softly. "It's just a… — Bret Easton Ellis Angry Copy Share Image
“It's basically a joke." "I think it's cool," Julian says. "It's all about control, right?" He considers something. "It's not a joke.… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a… — Bret Easton Ellis Analysis Copy Share Image
“Someone has already taken out a Minolta cellular phone and called for a car, and then, when I'm not really listening, watching… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“I had all the characteristics of a human being-- flesh, blood, skin, hair-- but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so… — Bret Easton Ellis Compassion Copy Share Image
“I’m drinking a glass of water in the empty hotel bar at the Principe di Savoia and staring at the mural behind… — Bret Easton Ellis Dark clouds Copy Share Image
“While taking a piss in the men's room, I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater,… — Bret Easton Ellis Abstract Copy Share Image
“where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater,… — Bret Easton Ellis Better place Copy Share Image
Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world. — Bret Easton Ellis Boeing Copy Share Image
“Why not? Give me one good reason why we shouldn't get married." Because trying to fuck you is like trying to french-kiss… — Bret Easton Ellis Breaking up Copy Share Image
I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character… — Bret Easton Ellis Character Copy Share Image
Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always… — Bret Easton Ellis Books Copy Share Image
I want to take you away from this," I say, motioning around the kitchen, spastic. "From sushi and elves and... STUFF. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour. — Bret Easton Ellis Acting Copy Share Image
“This is laid down with a groove funkier and blacker than anything Prince of Michael Jackson--or any other black artist of the… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“Like in a movie another bus appears, another poster for Les Misérables replaces the word—not the same bus because someone has written… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“Everything suddenly seems displaced, subtle gradations erase borders, but it’s more forceful than that.” — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last… — Bret Easton Ellis Fiction Copy Share Image
I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about.… — Bret Easton Ellis Care Copy Share Image
“If all of your friends are morons is it a felony, a misdemeanor or an act of God if you blow their… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
And," Price adds, smiling, "if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“Bigfoot was interviewed on The Patty Winters Show this morning and to my shock I found him surprisingly articulate and charming.” — Bret Easton Ellis Bigfoot Copy Share Image
“What? Did we end up hating each other? Did we end up the way we thought we always knew would? Did I… — Bret Easton Ellis Hate Copy Share Image
