Bret Ellis Quotes

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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," — Bret Ellis
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"Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre novels. I wanted to write a Stephen King novel and a Robert Ludlum novel. I loved those genres and those writers." — Bret Ellis
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"After spending three years with Patrick Bateman (from 1991's" — Bret Ellis
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"[Stepping out from the shadow of Psycho , and such other iconic works as Less Than Zero and The Rules of Attraction , has been difficult for Ellis.] I had spent 10 years working on an outline about a writer very much like myself, ... He was a fictional writer who had written fictional books, one about a serial killer. He'd had hard times, drug and alcohol problems, and had fathered an 11-year-old boy. Something was stopping me from writing the book. Then I thought, this guy has similarities to you, why don't you make him you?" — Bret Ellis
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"I grew up in suburbia," — Bret Ellis
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"I totally relate to Tom Cruise, ... He?s not crazy, it?s just the litany of the mid-life crisis." — Bret Ellis
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"I locked myself in a room for a month," — Bret Ellis
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"It should have been written already," — Bret Ellis
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"I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked." — Bret Ellis
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"Mailer is a genius. He's the one I most connect with in terms of fiction — his range is so wide. That's the sort of boldness I aspire to." — Bret Ellis
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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." — Bret Ellis
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"you simply didn't have to pay as much attention to things. The precise pose was no longer required." — Bret Ellis
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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," — Bret Ellis
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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." — Bret Ellis
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"Mailer is a genius. He's the one I most connect with in terms of fiction his range is so wide. That's the sort of boldness I aspire to." — Bret Ellis
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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." — Bret Ellis
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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." — Bret Ellis
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"everything that I find horrible about society." — Bret Ellis
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"The whole thing is emotional," — Bret Ellis
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"It's definitely there," — Bret Ellis
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"My father's ashes were kept in a safe deposit box for a long time," — Bret Ellis
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