“You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in the past, or what they'll say about you in the future.” WantWritingSaidBookPastConsideration Author:Bret Easton Ellis
“If you start looking at movies on a moral level - "I don't like that, that hurts, that's mean, that's bad" - then I don't even want to talk to you. Or like, someone that says "I don't like science-fiction movies," or "I don't want to sit through a Western," or "I don't like violence in movies," then I completely tune out.” IfsWantMeanHurtLevelsFictionMoralViolenceScience FictionWesternTunesScience Fiction MovieViolence In Movies Author:Bret Easton Ellis
“She laughs and looks out the window and I think for a minute that she's going to start to cry. I'm standing by the door and I look over at the Elvis Costello poster, at his eyes, watching her, watching us, and I try to get her away from it, so I tell her to come over here, sit down, and she thinks I want to hug her or something and she comes over to me and puts her arms around my back and says something like 'I think we've all lost some sort of feeling.” ThinkingWantTryingLooksFeelingsEyeLostLaughingDoorsMinutesCryArmsStandingWindowDown AndHis EyesHugPostersEyes Watching Book:Less Than Zero Source: Less Than Zero
“There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone, in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.” WorldWantFactsPainEvilCommonGainsCrossesConstantDeeperPunishmentInsaneIndifferenceBarriersConfessionViciousAdmittingPsychoEludeCatharsisUncontrollableMayhemNew Knowledge Author:Bret Easton Ellis
“Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.” WantIdeasScream Book:The Rules of Attraction Source: The Rules of Attraction
“but I don't want to wear a condom because I don't feel anything," and she says calmly... glaring at me,"If you don't use one you're not going to feel anything anyway.” IfsWantFeelsUseCondom Author:Bret Easton Ellis
“I want to take you away from this," I say, motioning around the kitchen, spastic. "From sushi and elves and... STUFF.” WantStuffKitchenSushi Book:American Psycho: Picador Classic Source: American Psycho: Picador Classic
“And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst” WantFirstsDoeMatterFatherRealizingWorstPassingPassingsDescentElevators Author:Bret Easton Ellis
“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.” IfsWantWant Something Book:Less Than Zero Source: Less Than Zero
“'Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?' [...] '"When I see a pretty girl walking down the street I think two things. One part of me wants to take her out and talk to her and be real nice and sweet and treat her right."' I stop finish my J&B in one swallow. 'What does the other part of him think?' Hamlin asks tentatively. 'What her head would look like on a stick...'” ThinkingKnowsWantLooksDoeSaidTwoRealGirlAsksNiceStreetsSweetWalkingTreatsSticksTwo ThingsDo You KnowBeing RealPsychoPretty Girl Author:Bret Easton Ellis
“But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.” WantPastHappenedKarmaVisitingConfronting Book:Lunar Park Source: Lunar Park
“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.” IfsWantCareWorryPainfulDon't CareI Don't CareI Care Book:Less Than Zero Source: Less Than Zero
“I want to moan and writhe with you and I want to go up to you and kiss your mouth and pull you to me and say "I love you I love you I love you" while stripping. I want you so bad it stings.” WantLove YouKissingMouthsI Want YouUp To YouSay I Love YouStrippingRules Of Attraction Author:Bret Easton Ellis
“There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me.” KnowsWantWritingBookStuffPlansMeaningless Author: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.” IfsThinkingWantWritingBookIdeasDoneScreenplays Author:Bret Easton Ellis
“Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.” ThinkingWantDreamChristianNovelScreensGreyPranksters Author:Bret Easton Ellis
