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 ELLISI 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.
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I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don’t necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade.
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A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pretend to be a vampire.
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You don’t market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It’s a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what you do when you’re confronted by criticism. You just don’t listen to it.
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We buy balloons, we let them go.
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There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.
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That’s how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the wreckage, blood streaming from his nose, asking questions that never required answers.
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With “Taipei” Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation…
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What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one’s wrists?
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I want to moan and writhe with you and I want to go up to you and kiss your mouth and pull you to me and say “I love you I love you I love you” while stripping. I want you so bad it stings.
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People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.
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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.
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Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.
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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.
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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.
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I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.
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