Bret Ellis Quotes (12 Quotes)

My father's ashes were kept in a safe deposit box for a long time,

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

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

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 disciplin

you simply didn't have to pay as much attention to things. The precise pose was no longer required.

As a writer you slant all evidence in favor of the conclusions you want to produce, and you rarely tilt in favor of the truth,

I was doing Ray-Ban ads at 22. I was posing for the covers of English magazines on a tennis court, on a throne, on the deck of my condo in a purple robe. ... I crashed a borrowed Ferrari in Southampton and its owner just smiled (for some reason I was naked).

After spending three years with Patrick Bateman (from 1991's

I'm a believer that a book should exist on its own,

We were all such Didion junkies in college that might still be the highlight of my career.

Fun is what reading a book should be. I had fun writing it. I wanted a reader to be gripped but it shouldn't be a heavy experience.

I hadn't published a book in six years so I didn't know what to expect. It has been going very well. They've all been packed.