Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is… — 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 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 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies. — 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
Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I write books to relieve myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you… — 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
If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something… — Bret Easton Ellis 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 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
Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“The audience-- the book's actual cast-- quickly realized what had happened. The reason the movie dropped everything that made the novel real… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's -… — Bret Easton Ellis 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
“The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.” — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“My books have all been very deeply felt. You don’t spend eight years of your life working on a trendy knockoff. In… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“he looked at me with such vehemence that I felt like a blip, a fart, in the course of his life.” — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“This isn't a script," Julian says. "It's not going to add up. Not everything's going to come together in the third act.” — Bret Easton Ellis 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 the woman… — 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 underclass-- and… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do? — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone. — Bret Easton Ellis 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 I had… — Bret Easton Ellis 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 shaking. 'Don't… — Bret Easton Ellis 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 to come… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“Scientists peered into data and concluded that we should all be worried. -Lunar planet” — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
