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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

My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Catharsis Pain World
My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.
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Mask Sanity Slippage Vacation
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

Dedication Skills Writing
Disappear Here. The syringe fills with blood. You’re a beautiful boy and that’s all that matters. Wonder if he’s for sale. People are afraid to merge. To merge.
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Beautiful Bloodsign Boys Merge
Her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars’ worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I’m at a loss: […] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk.
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Loss Memories Rap
It’s as if her mind is having a hard time communicating with her mouth, as if she is searching for a rational analysis of who I am, which is, of course, an impossibility: there… is… no… key.
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Analysis Communicating Key Mind Rational
Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn’t that what people do?
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Holding Mines People
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 every day might be wasting those seven hours if he’s not in the mood and doesn’t feel the juice. I don’t think discipline equals creativity.
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Creativity Mean Writing
I don’t know why I write what I write.
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Knows Write Writing
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.
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Novel Scene Touched
Women aren’t very bright,” Rip says. “Studies have been done.
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Done Rip Study
One part of me wants to take her out and talk to her and be real nice and sweet and treat her right.”‘ I stop finish my J&B in one swallow. ‘What does the other part of him think?’ Hamlin asks tentatively. ‘What her head would look like on a stick…’
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Ask Mice One Part Right Swallow Treat
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.
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Choices Looks Thinking
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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Character Ideas Way
After a while you learn that everything stops.
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After Everything Stops While
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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Kissing Love Mouth Say Stripping

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