“Everything suddenly seems displaced, subtle gradations erase borders, but it’s more forceful than that.” — Bret Easton Ellis 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
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
That's how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the wreckage, blood streaming from his nose, asking questions that never… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“But you don't need anything. You have everything,' I tell him. Rip looks at me. 'No I don't.' 'What?' 'No I don't.'… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in… — Bret Easton Ellis Book Copy Share Image
Eventually everyone has to hit the dark side of life - Someone doesn't like you, someone doesn't like your work, someone doesn't… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“Why not?” she asks petulantly. “Give me one good reason we shouldn’t.” “Because trying to fuck you is like trying to French-kiss… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“On my way over to Park Avenue to find a cab I pass an ugly, homeless bum-- a member of the genetic… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I keep feeling that people are becoming less human and more animalistic. They seem to think less and feel less so that… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“The movie was very different from the book in that there was nothing from the book in the movie. Despite everything —… — Bret Easton Ellis Beautiful lie Copy Share Image
“This was what i could understand, this was how I lived my life, what I constructed my movement around, how I dealt… — Bret Easton Ellis Better place Copy Share Image
“It wasn't until the show was almost over that I figured out what it was: the crack above my David Onica that… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“Got you. You're mine now. For the rest of the day, week, month, year, life. Have you guessed who I am? Sometimes… — Bret Easton Ellis Dark eyes Copy Share Image
“there was a song i heard when i was in los angeles by a local group. the song was called "los angeles"… — Bret Easton Ellis Living in the city Copy Share Image
“I want to stay," and then, more weakly, "Need some more sun." A fly from a batch of seaweed lands on a… — Bret Easton Ellis Blind person Copy Share Image
A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pretend to… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“Just read this fabulous screenplay. A remake of Camus's The Stranger with Meursault as a bi break-dancing punk rocker. Randy showed it… — Bret Easton Ellis Movie 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 deep, that… — Bret Easton Ellis Ability Copy Share Image
I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how… — Bret Easton Ellis Blackness Copy Share Image
What do you do?' she asks, holding out the vest. 'What do you do?' 'What do you do?' she asks, her voice… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“A vast and abandoned world laid out in anonymous grids and quadrants, a view that confirmed you were much more alone than… — Bret Easton Ellis Suicide Copy Share Image
People just... disappear," he says. "The Earth just opens up and swallows people," I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex. "Eerie."… — Bret Easton Ellis Agreement Copy Share Image
I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where I think the… — Bret Easton Ellis Book Copy Share Image
Hip," I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell's---my mouth foaming, all I could think… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you… — bret easton ellis Copy Share Image
“I'm resourceful," Price is saying. "I'm creative, I'm young, unscrupulous, highly motivate, highly skilled. In essence what I'm saying is that society… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“We're at a dinner party in an apartment on Rue Paul Valéry between Avenue Foch and Avenue Victor Hugo and it's all… — Bret Easton Ellis Dinner party Copy Share Image
“Nothing was affirmative, the term "generosity of spirit" applied to nothing, was a cliché, was some kind of bad joke. Sex is… — 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 Copy Share Image
“At the casting sessions it was all boys and though I wasn’t exactly bored I didn’t need to be there, and songs… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“In the movie I was played by an actor who actually looked more like me than the character the author portrayed in… — Bret Easton Ellis Actor Copy Share Image
“Everything failed to subdue me. Soon everything seemed dull: another sunrise, the lives of heroes, falling in love, war, the discoveries people… — Bret Easton Ellis Compassion Copy Share Image
“On the TV screen in Harry's is The Patty Winters Show, which is now on in the afternoon and is up against… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“The heroin flowing through me, I thought about the last time I saw my father alive. He was drunk and overweight in… — Bret Easton Ellis Beverly hills Copy Share Image
“As a writer you slant all evidence in favor of the conclusions you want to produce and you rarely tilt in favor… — Bret Easton Ellis Focal point Copy Share Image
I think the books are the books. They were conceived as books. They weren't conceived as movies. When I write scripts, that's… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
