On the seals’ tank a plaque warns: COINS CAN KILL–IF SWALLOWED, COINS CAN LODGE IN AN ANIMAL’S STOMACH AND CAUSE ULCERS, INFECTIONS AND DEATH. DO NOT THROW COINS IN THE POOL.
BRET EASTON ELLISYou 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.
More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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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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Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn’t a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don’t know. I think it’s a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.
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I’ve been accused of being very vain about my apathy.
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I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He’s not crazy, it’s just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
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We buy balloons, we let them go.
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I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the afternoon smearing her meat all over the walls, chewing on strips of skin I ripped from her body
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Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn’t that what people do?
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Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.
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After a while you learn that everything stops.
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With “Taipei” Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation…
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I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.
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Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.
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What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one’s wrists?
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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.
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Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?’ I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.
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