Quote

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

Bret Easton Ellis

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bret Easton Ellis
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
Executive Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Podcaster
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
LA
California
Bret-Easton Ellis
Bret Ellis
Enough
Feel
Feels
Like
Questions
Smart
Answer
Asked
Answers

More quotes by Bret Easton Ellis

Image
Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
I wasn't acting on passion. I was simply acting.
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
If you come at movies with your own sense of morality and not your own sense of aesthetics, I think you're screwed. I think that's not a way to look at movies.
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
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
Image
Women aren't very bright, Rip says. Studies have been done.
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
I write books to relieve ­myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
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
Image
...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.
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone.
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.
Bret Easton Ellis
Image
... her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars' worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I'm at a loss: [...] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk.
Bret Easton Ellis