Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it’s not relating in prose what you’ve been doing for the last two or three years.
BRET EASTON ELLISLook how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.
More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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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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After a while you learn that everything stops.
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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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People just… disappear,” he says. “The Earth just opens up and swallows people,” I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex. “Eerie.” Kimball yawns, stretching. “Really eerie.” “Ominous.” I nod my agreement. “It’s just”- he sights, exasperated- “futile.
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I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning
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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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I feel like I’m not smart enough to answer the questions I’m asked.
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Women aren’t very bright,” Rip says. “Studies have been done.
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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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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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I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you’ve always lived.)
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What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one’s wrists?
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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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People are afraid to merge.
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I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal’s handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone.
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