"Every book for me is an exorcism in……" — Bret Easton Ellis
"Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time."
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126 Quotes by Bret Easton Ellis
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- Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
- I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at…
- Where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort…
- Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.
- Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning,
- Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or…
- I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.
- I don't know why I write what I write.
- I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.
- I think basically most men are misogynistic.
- I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them…
- I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.
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