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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.

Bret Easton Ellis

…if you’re alone nothing bad can happen to you.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Happen Happens Noihing
Hip,” I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell’s—my mouth foaming, all I could think about were insects, lots of insects, and running at pigeons, foaming at the mouth and running at pigeons.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Night Running Thinking
I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Cab Cities Installed
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.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Book Great Interesting Medium Movie
And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention
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Apart Attention Thing
With “Taipei” Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation…
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Generations Interesting Stylist
And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn’t and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing… this didn’t change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Imagine Numbness Probably Relationship Tea
At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd; though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Men Moving Odds
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 ELLIS

Baby Book Heart
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.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Criticism Hobbies Writing
Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?’ I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Ideas Scream Want
I think we’ve all lost some kind of feeling.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Feelings Kind Thinking
Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?’ […] ‘”When I see a pretty girl walking down the street I think two things.
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Down Girl Real Street Sweet Think
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
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.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Go Letting Past Real
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.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Loss Memories Rap

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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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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