Bret Easton Ellis Quotes

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  • I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.

    Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.100, Pan Macmillan
  • 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 (2010). “Less Than Zero”, p.189, Vintage
  • 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 (2010). “American Psycho”, p.379, Vintage
  • Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.

    FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Jan 03, 2014
  • I think the books are the books. They were conceived as books. They weren't conceived as movies. When I write scripts, that's an idea and a situation that I think is a really good idea for a movie. 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.

    Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2009.
  • 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.

    Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. March 17, 1999.
  • If you start looking at movies on a moral level - "I don't like that, that hurts, that's mean, that's bad" - then I don't even want to talk to you. Or like, someone that says "I don't like science-fiction movies," or "I don't want to sit through a Western," or "I don't like violence in movies," then I completely tune out.

    Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2009.
  • but I don't want to wear a condom because I don't feel anything," and she says calmly... glaring at me,"If you don't use one you're not going to feel anything anyway.

  • Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning.

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

    FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Oct 30, 2011
  • I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.

    Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “American Psycho”, p.380, Vintage
  • The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children.

  • 'Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?' [...] '"When I see a pretty girl walking down the street I think two things. One part of me wants to take her out and talk to her and be real nice and sweet and treat her right."' I stop finish my J&B in one swallow. 'What does the other part of him think?' Hamlin asks tentatively. 'What her head would look like on a stick...'

    "American Psycho". Book by Bret Easton Ellis, 1991.
  • I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning

    FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Oct 31, 2013
  • He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn't seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he'd shared our secret failures with the world, showcasing the youthful indifference, the gleaming nihilism, glamorizing the horror of it all.

    Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “Imperial Bedrooms”, p.3, Pan Macmillan
  • And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

  • 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.

    Twitter post from Jun 10, 2012
  • Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.

  • I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

  • And," Price adds, smiling, "if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set the maitre d' on fire. So you know, warn him.

    Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “American Psycho”, p.47, Vintage
  • Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.

    "Bret Easton Ellis on American Psycho, Christian Bale, and His Problem with Women Directors". Interview with Kyle Buchanan, movieline.com. May 18, 2010.
  • I wasn't acting on passion. I was simply acting.

    Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “The Rules of Attraction”, p.229, Pan Macmillan
  • Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.

  • 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.

  • Price. You're priceless.

  • I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don't necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade.

    Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. March 17, 1999.
  • Disappear Here. The syringe fills with blood. You're a beautiful boy and that's all that matters. Wonder if he's for sale. People are afraid to merge. To merge.

  • I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.

    Interview with Ariel Adams, www.askmen.com.
  • The better you look, the more you see.

    Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “Glamorama”, p.121, Pan Macmillan
  • ...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.

    FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Jan 20, 2015
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