Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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Bret Easton Ellis Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track.
It was always the A booth. It was always the front seat of the roller coaster. It was never Let's not get the bottle of Cristal.
I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.
You are a fucking ugly bitch I want to stab to death and play around with your blood, but I'm smiling.
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.
I had to put this slim volume back into my bookshelf and drink a J&B on the rocks, followed by two Xanax, to recover from the effort.
You should never mistake affection for ... passion," I warn her. "It can be ... not good. It can ... get you into, well, trouble.
Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.
Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?
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.
I'd get confused and write down things just to write them down and I came to this realization that I didn't do enough things to keep a datebook.
But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.
From those of us who are left behind: you will be remembered, you were the one I needed, I loved you in my dreams.
But ... what about us? What about the past?" she asks blankly.
"The past isn't real. it's just a dream," I say. "Don't mention the past.
"The past isn't real. it's just a dream," I say. "Don't mention the past.
Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.
The polite conversation that carried over from cocktails into dinner was so stifling that it carried a certain ruthlessness,
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.
My mind reeling with the concept that a human being, a man, could feel pride over sodomizing another man,
Hope E. L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.
I guess the consolation is that she's not going to be beautiful forever," he says. "But I'd like to be with her before that happens.
Everything suddenly seems displaced, subtle gradations erase borders, but it's more forceful than that.
Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.
I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.
By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world.
Looking at Tim, one cannot help feeling great waves of uncertainty, an absence of aim, of purpose, as if he is a person who simply doesn't matter.
What do you want, Patrick?" she sighs.
"I just want peace, love, friendship, understanding," I say dispassionately.
"I just want peace, love, friendship, understanding," I say dispassionately.
It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a primal way.
She's simply another girl who has gotten by on her looks - her currency in this world - and it will not be fun to watch her grow old.
What keeps me interested
and it always does
is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?
and it always does
is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?
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.
I have no patience for revelations, for new beginnings, for events that take place beyond the realm of my immediate vision.