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.
BRET EASTON ELLISI 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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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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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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People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.
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I think we’ve all lost some kind of feeling.
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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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Rock ‘n’ roll. Deal with it.
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I think a lot of snowflakes are alike…and I think a lot of people are alike too.
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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.
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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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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.
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I don’t know why I write what I write.
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I learned that you really don’t have any control as a writer. Waah, waah, waah. Big deal. Unless you’re the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don’t have a lot of control.
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What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one’s wrists?
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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.
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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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