Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.
BRET EASTON ELLISThat’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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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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The Smiths are singing and someone says “Turn that gay angst music off.
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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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Hello, Halberstam,” Owen says, walking by. Hello, Owen,” I say, admiring the way he’s styled and slicked back his hair, with a part so even and sharp it…
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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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After a while you learn that everything stops.
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There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed.
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What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
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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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How could she ever understand that there isn’t any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?
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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.
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We buy balloons, we let them go.
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I don’t know why I write what I write.
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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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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.
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