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Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

Bret Easton Ellis

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Bret Easton Ellis
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
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I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.
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My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
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Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.
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The snowy owl has eyes that look just like mine, especially when it widens them. And while I stand there, staring at it, lowering my sunglasses, something unspoken passes between me and the bird - there's this weird kind of tension, a bizarre pressure, that fuels the following, which starts, happens, ends, very quickly.
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I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.
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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 think discipline equals creativity.
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I have to return some videotapes
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I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.
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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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Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.
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Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.
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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.
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The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone.
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My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing
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History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.
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Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.
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I write books to relieve ­myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.
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What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?
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There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.
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But this road doesn't go anywhere,” I told him. “That doesn't matter.” “What does?” I asked, after a little while. “Just that we're on it, dude,” he said.
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