It’s like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful, like Mom just trying to make the best of things.
BRET EASTON ELLISThere’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.
More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
-
-
Women aren’t very bright,” Rip says. “Studies have been done.
BRET EASTON ELLIS -
So what do I do? Toss a handful of change into the tank when none of the zookeepers are watching. It’s not the seals I hate——it’s the audience’s enjoyment of them that bothers me.
BRET EASTON ELLIS -
Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.
BRET EASTON ELLIS -
Devastates me and I make a mental note to ask him where he purchases his hair-care products, which kind of mousse he uses, my final guesses after mulling over the possibilities being Ten-X.
BRET EASTON ELLIS -
I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it.
BRET EASTON ELLIS -
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
BRET EASTON ELLIS -
With “Taipei” Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation…
BRET EASTON ELLIS -
I’ve been accused of being very vain about my apathy.
BRET EASTON ELLIS -
I think we’ve all lost some kind of feeling.
BRET EASTON ELLIS -
…if you’re alone nothing bad can happen to you.
BRET EASTON ELLIS -
I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning
BRET EASTON ELLIS -
Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
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 think basically most men are misogynistic.
BRET EASTON ELLIS -
I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he’d been a mime, odds are he’d already be dead.
BRET EASTON ELLIS