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 you do when you're confronted by criticism. You just don't listen to it. — 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 when he softly pleads for change, for "anything," I noticed the Barnes & Noble book bag that sits next to him on the steps of the church he's begging on and I can't help but smirk,… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share
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 asked the doorman to tell the superintendent to fix. On my way out this morning, I stopped at the front desk, about to complain to the doorman, when I was confronted with a NEW doorman, my… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share
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 up to me and let me know how you feel I want to moan and writhe with you and I want to go up to you and kiss your mouth and pull you to me and… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share
“Scientists peered into data and concluded that we should all be worried. -Lunar planet” — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share
