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Writing Quotes by Bret Easton Ellis
- Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
- I don't know why I write what I write.
- I'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write for seven hours…
- I write books to relieve myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.
- There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me.
- If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think…
- No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
- Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.
- You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen…
- I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.
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