List of Bret Easton Ellis Quotes

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Bret Easton Ellis
Total Quotes 147
I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.
Heart Laughing Take A Deep Breath
I went to college in vermont, and then stayed in the east coast.
College East Vermont
The numbing lists of things you were supposed to have as an american to make you happy, which ultimately, of course, don't. those aren't the things that make you happy.
Lists Make You Happy Courses
I think the '80s created me, in a way, when i look back on that time, but i don't necessarily think that a lot of my choices, and a lot of things that i did, and a lot of things that happened to me - or i let happen to me - were about that decade.
Thinking Choices Looks
I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where i think the author's photograph is part of the package. and i have gone out of my way to select the photograph to connect to the subject matter of each book.
Book Thinking Looks
I'm really shocked when critics get morally outraged at my fiction because they think i'm condoning what's going on. i never come in as the author and say, "hey, okay. i'm interrupting the narrator here. i'm bret easton ellis, and i'm the author."
Thinking Narrators Fiction
You really write the books you want to write. you can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in the past, or what they'll say about you in the future.
Book Writing Past
So…” kimball looks at his book helplessly. “there’s nothing you can tell me about paul owen?” “well.” i sigh. “he led what i suppose was an orderly life, i guess. “ really stumped, i offer, “he...ate a balanced diet.
Book Looks Sigh
I learned that you really don't have any control as a writer. waah, waah, waah. big deal. 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. as someone who's just writing scripts, you just kind of have to shrug. i have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general. it is what it is.
Writing Issues Directors
I think the books are the books. they were conceived as books. they weren't conceived as movies. when i write scripts, that's an idea and a situation that i think is a really good idea for a movie. when i'm writing a book, i'm not thinking, "oh, this would be a great movie." this would be a very interesting book. and i think the books are things that cannot really be adapted into another medium.
Book Writing Thinking
What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?
Reality Doe Actresses
And," price adds, smiling, "if another round of bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set the maitre d' on fire. so you know, warn him.
Fire Feet Twenties
  • Born: March 7, 1964
  • Occupation: Novelist
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