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The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track.
— Bret Easton Ellis
I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.
— Bret Easton Ellis
What's the difference between a J.A.P and spaghetti? Spaghetti moves when you eat it.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
— Bret Easton Ellis
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
It was always the A booth. It was always the front seat of the roller coaster. It was never Let's not get the bottle of Cristal.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Nothing. Nothing makes me happy. I like nothing, I tell her.
— Bret Easton Ellis
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
You are a fucking ugly bitch I want to stab to death and play around with your blood, but I'm smiling.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Suddenly I'm seized by a minor anxiety attack. There are too many fucking movies to choose from.
— Bret Easton Ellis
The Grinch says leave!
— Bret Easton Ellis
Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.
— Bret Easton Ellis
With Taipei Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation.
— Bret Easton Ellis
General competence is on the fucking decline.
— Bret Easton Ellis
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 I can say took place.
— Bret Easton Ellis
What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
— Bret Easton Ellis
I wasn't acting on passion. I was simply acting.
— Bret Easton Ellis
I only had sex with her because I'm in love with you.
— Bret Easton Ellis
I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent.
— Jay McInerney
I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.
— Bret Easton Ellis
When you love a book it loves you back.
— Bret Easton Ellis
I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.
— Bret Easton Ellis
What keeps me interestedand it always does
is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality? — Bret Easton Ellis
No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
— Bret Easton Ellis
This was sending me out so much further than I had ever expected: a place beyond strength.
— Bret Easton Ellis
I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.
— Bret Easton Ellis
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 can only be done novelistically.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Listen," I say, pushing my chair in. "I just want everyone to know that I'm pro-family and anti-drug. Excuse me.
— Bret Easton Ellis
If you can't make a girl come why even bother? That always seemed to me to be like writing questions in a letter.
— Bret Easton Ellis
I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.
— Bret Easton Ellis
I have no patience for revelations, for new beginnings, for events that take place beyond the realm of my immediate vision.
— Bret Easton Ellis
There was something beneath the surface of things.
— Bret Easton Ellis
My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Lover? se asks, her voice reminding me of someone human.
— Bret Easton Ellis
How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?
— Bret Easton Ellis
Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.
— Bret Easton Ellis
What's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.
— Bret Easton Ellis
And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention
— Bret Easton Ellis
And before I can stop it I find myself almost dazzled and moved that I might have the capacity to accept, though not return, her love.
— Bret Easton Ellis
She's simply another girl who has gotten by on her looks - her currency in this world - and it will not be fun to watch her grow old.
— Bret Easton Ellis
By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world.
— Bret Easton Ellis
did another line and believed him because it is easier to move through the motions than not to.
— Bret Easton Ellis
I have to return some videos,
— Bret Easton Ellis
Looking at Tim, one cannot help feeling great waves of uncertainty, an absence of aim, of purpose, as if he is a person who simply doesn't matter.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Don't tell me he was another serial killer, Bateman. Not another serial killer." "No, McDufus, he wasn't a serial killer,
— Bret Easton Ellis
What do you want, Patrick?" she sighs."I just want peace, love, friendship, understanding," I say dispassionately. — Bret Easton Ellis
No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.
— Bret Easton Ellis
...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.
— Bret Easton Ellis
The Smiths are singing and someone says Turn that gay angst music off.
— Bret Easton Ellis
My pain is constant and sharp ... this confession has meant nothing
— Bret Easton Ellis
This is not an exit.
— Bret Easton Ellis
It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a primal way.
— Bret Easton Ellis
What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?
— Bret Easton Ellis
What? Did we end up hating each other? Did we end up the way we thought we always knew would? Did I end up wearing khakis because of that fucking ad?
— Bret Easton Ellis
There is no time for the innocent.
— Bret Easton Ellis
You've got to be really dialed into exactly who you are to the one hundredth power or you're just everyone else
— Kanye West
I guess the consolation is that she's not going to be beautiful forever," he says. "But I'd like to be with her before that happens.
— Bret Easton Ellis
My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage.
— Bret Easton Ellis
I have a lunch meeting with Cliff Huxtable at The Four Seasons in twenty minutes anyway," I lie, standing up. "I have to go too.
— Bret Easton Ellis
When Blair bites her lower lip she's eighteen again.
— Bret Easton Ellis
When I look over at Luis in one brief flashing moment his head looks like a talking vagina and it scares the bejesus out of me ...
— Bret Easton Ellis
Everything suddenly seems displaced, subtle gradations erase borders, but it's more forceful than that.
— Bret Easton Ellis
I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.
— Bret Easton Ellis
On The Patty Winters Show this morning a Cheerio sat in a very small chair and was interviewed for close to an hour.
— Bret Easton Ellis
You can disappear here without knowing it.
— Bret Easton Ellis
There's no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I've started drinking my own urine.
— Bret Easton Ellis
You have neither the clout nor the experience to make a threat like that, Victor.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Bigfoot was interviewed on The Patty Winters Show this morning and to my shock I found him surprisingly articulate and charming.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.
— Bret Easton Ellis
People are afraid to merge.
— Bret Easton Ellis
I'm having a difficult time containing my disordered self.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?
— Bret Easton Ellis
No one ever likes the right person.
— Bret Easton Ellis
We buy balloons, we let them go.
— Bret Easton Ellis
I have to return some videotapes
— Bret Easton Ellis
I'm thinking about the beautiful boy on the treadmill wearing the I STILL HAVE A DREAM T-shirt and realize that it might not have been ironic.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Did I do this on purpose? What do you think? Or did I do this accidentally?
— Bret Easton Ellis
I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?
— Bret Easton Ellis
It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.
— Bret Easton Ellis
History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.
— Bret Easton Ellis
I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.
— Bret Easton Ellis
There's a moment of sheer terror when I discover Paul's apartment overlooks the park
— Bret Easton Ellis
I don't know why I write what I write.
— Bret Easton Ellis
All of my books come from pain.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Scientists peered into data and concluded that we should all be worried.-Lunar planet — Bret Easton Ellis
I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Confusion and hopelessness don't necessarily cause a person to act.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.
— Bret Easton Ellis
I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
— Bret Easton Ellis
The better you look, the more you see.
— Bret Easton Ellis
There is music playing somewhere but I can't hear it.
— Bret Easton Ellis
I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.
— Bret Easton Ellis
You learn to move on without the people you love.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Around here, 'tomorrow night' means anywhere from five days to a month. Jesus,
— Bret Easton Ellis