Bret Easton Ellis Quotes

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. — Bret Easton Ellis

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time. — Bret Easton Ellis

What's the difference between a J.A.P and spaghetti? Spaghetti moves when you eat it. — Bret Easton Ellis

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do? — Bret Easton Ellis

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies. — Bret Easton Ellis

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. — Bret Easton Ellis

Nothing. Nothing makes me happy. I like nothing, I tell her. — Bret Easton Ellis

I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels. — Bret Easton Ellis

You are a fucking ugly bitch I want to stab to death and play around with your blood, but I'm smiling. — Bret Easton Ellis

Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever. — Bret Easton Ellis

Suddenly I'm seized by a minor anxiety attack. There are too many fucking movies to choose from. — Bret Easton Ellis

The Grinch says leave! — Bret Easton Ellis

Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me. — Bret Easton Ellis

With Taipei Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation. — Bret Easton Ellis

General competence is on the fucking decline. — Bret Easton Ellis

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. — Bret Easton Ellis

What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me. — Bret Easton Ellis

I wasn't acting on passion. I was simply acting. — Bret Easton Ellis

I only had sex with her because I'm in love with you. — Bret Easton Ellis

I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent. — Jay McInerney

It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does. — Bret Easton Ellis

No one ever likes the right person. — Bret Easton Ellis

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do? — Bret Easton Ellis

I'm having a difficult time containing my disordered self. — Bret Easton Ellis

People are afraid to merge. — Bret Easton Ellis

Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters. — Bret Easton Ellis

Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it. — Bret Easton Ellis

Bigfoot was interviewed on The Patty Winters Show this morning and to my shock I found him surprisingly articulate and charming. — Bret Easton Ellis

You have neither the clout nor the experience to make a threat like that, Victor. — Bret Easton Ellis

There's no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I've started drinking my own urine. — Bret Easton Ellis

You can disappear here without knowing it. — Bret Easton Ellis

What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists? — Bret Easton Ellis

I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends. — Bret Easton Ellis

Everything suddenly seems displaced, subtle gradations erase borders, but it's more forceful than that. — Bret Easton Ellis

When I look over at Luis in one brief flashing moment his head looks like a talking vagina and it scares the bejesus out of me ... — Bret Easton Ellis

When Blair bites her lower lip she's eighteen again. — Bret Easton Ellis

I have a lunch meeting with Cliff Huxtable at The Four Seasons in twenty minutes anyway," I lie, standing up. "I have to go too. — Bret Easton Ellis

My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. — Bret Easton Ellis

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. — Bret Easton Ellis

You've got to be really dialed into exactly who you are to the one hundredth power or you're just everyone else — Kanye West

There is no time for the innocent. — Bret Easton Ellis

What? Did we end up hating each other? Did we end up the way we thought we always knew would? Did I end up wearing khakis because of that fucking ad? — Bret Easton Ellis

On The Patty Winters Show this morning a Cheerio sat in a very small chair and was interviewed for close to an hour. — Bret Easton Ellis

Around here, 'tomorrow night' means anywhere from five days to a month. Jesus, — Bret Easton Ellis

You learn to move on without the people you love. — Bret Easton Ellis

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him. — Bret Easton Ellis

There is music playing somewhere but I can't hear it. — Bret Easton Ellis

The better you look, the more you see. — Bret Easton Ellis

I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis. — Bret Easton Ellis

Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other. — Bret Easton Ellis

Confusion and hopelessness don't necessarily cause a person to act. — Bret Easton Ellis

I do not feel I have a legacy to protect. — Bret Easton Ellis

Scientists peered into data and concluded that we should all be worried.
-Lunar planet — Bret Easton Ellis

We buy balloons, we let them go. — Bret Easton Ellis

All of my books come from pain. — Bret Easton Ellis

I don't know why I write what I write. — Bret Easton Ellis

There's a moment of sheer terror when I discover Paul's apartment overlooks the park — Bret Easton Ellis

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general. — Bret Easton Ellis

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad. — Bret Easton Ellis

There was something beneath the surface of things. — Bret Easton Ellis

I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane? — Bret Easton Ellis

Did I do this on purpose? What do you think? Or did I do this accidentally? — Bret Easton Ellis

I'm thinking about the beautiful boy on the treadmill wearing the I STILL HAVE A DREAM T-shirt and realize that it might not have been ironic. — Bret Easton Ellis

I have to return some videotapes — Bret Easton Ellis

Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time. — Bret Easton Ellis

I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care. — Bret Easton Ellis

I have no patience for revelations, for new beginnings, for events that take place beyond the realm of my immediate vision. — Bret Easton Ellis

I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy. — Bret Easton Ellis

If you can't make a girl come why even bother? That always seemed to me to be like writing questions in a letter. — Bret Easton Ellis

Listen," I say, pushing my chair in. "I just want everyone to know that I'm pro-family and anti-drug. Excuse me. — Bret Easton Ellis

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. — Bret Easton Ellis

What keeps me interested
and it always does
is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality? — Bret Easton Ellis

This was sending me out so much further than I had ever expected: a place beyond strength. — Bret Easton Ellis

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy. — Bret Easton Ellis

Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride. — Bret Easton Ellis

I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality. — Bret Easton Ellis

I think Bret Easton Ellis has said that he doesn't completely identify with his characters. And I think he has referred to them as immoral before. — Tao Lin

When you love a book it loves you back. — Bret Easton Ellis

I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where. — Bret Easton Ellis

I have to return some videos, — Bret Easton Ellis

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. — Bret Easton Ellis

This is not an exit. — Bret Easton Ellis

My pain is constant and sharp ... this confession has meant nothing — Bret Easton Ellis

The Smiths are singing and someone says Turn that gay angst music off. — Bret Easton Ellis

...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you. — Bret Easton Ellis

No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me. — Bret Easton Ellis

What do you want, Patrick?" she sighs.
"I just want peace, love, friendship, understanding," I say dispassionately. — Bret Easton Ellis

Don't tell me he was another serial killer, Bateman. Not another serial killer." "No, McDufus, he wasn't a serial killer, — Bret Easton Ellis

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. — Bret Easton Ellis

My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. — Bret Easton Ellis

did another line and believed him because it is easier to move through the motions than not to. — Bret Easton Ellis

By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world. — Bret Easton Ellis

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. — Bret Easton Ellis

And before I can stop it I find myself almost dazzled and moved that I might have the capacity to accept, though not return, her love. — Bret Easton Ellis

And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention — Bret Easton Ellis

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. — Bret Easton Ellis

What's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it. — Bret Easton Ellis

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 Ellis

How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to? — Bret Easton Ellis

Lover? se asks, her voice reminding me of someone human. — Bret Easton Ellis