Quotes from 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.

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

I think basically most men are misogynistic.

It's like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful, like Mom just trying to make the best of things.

@BretEastonEllis 31 MarAfter watching the delirious Room 237 I realized that the worst thing happening to movies was the empowerment of the viewer via technology.

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

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.

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

I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction.

I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at Pastels since I'm positive we won't get seated but the table is good, and relief that is almost tidal in scope washes over me in an awesome wave.

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

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.

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone.

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