26 ordspråk av Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis
After spending three years with Patrick Bateman (from 1991's
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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,
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everything that I find horrible about society.
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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.
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I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.
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I didn't want to write another long experimental novel.
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I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.
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I grew up in suburbia,
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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.
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I 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 locked myself in a room for a month,
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I totally relate to Tom Cruise, ... He?s not crazy, it?s just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
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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).
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I'm a believer that a book should exist on its own,
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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 discipline equals creativity.
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