No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy. — 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 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
“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 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 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
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 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'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write… — 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
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
“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
“How do I know you're not crazy?" she asks. "How do I know you're not the craziest dude I've ever met?" "You'll… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“... Because the writer resented that she had turned to me I became the handsome and dazed narrator, incapable of love or… — 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 learned that you really don't have any control as a writer. Waah, waah, waah. Big deal. Unless you're the director on… — 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
“But the thing I remember most about the screening in October twenty years ago was the moment Julian grasped my hand that… — Bret Easton Ellis 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 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 Copy Share Image
Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other. — Bret Easton Ellis 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 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 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
“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
“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
