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American novelist known for his profound insights into modern urban life and sharp criticism. His works, including 'Less Than Zero' and 'The Rules of Attraction', are renowned for their unique narrative style and sharp social observations.

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Famous Bret Easton Ellis Quotes

“I think the '80s created me, in a way, when I look back on that time, but I don't necessarily think that a lot of my choices, and a lot of things that I did, and a lot of things that happened to me - or I let happen to me - were about that decade.”

Thinking Way Looks Happens Choices Happened Decades 80s

Author:Bret Easton Ellis

“I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where I think the author's photograph is part of the package. And I have gone out of my way to select the photograph to connect to the subject matter of each book.”

Thinking Way Looks Book Matter Fiction Gone Subjects Photograph My Way Packages Select Subject Matter

Author:Bret Easton Ellis

“You don't market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It's a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what you do when you're confronted by criticism. You just don't listen to it.”

Way Writing Problem Novel Research Criticism Hobbies Market Research

Author:Bret Easton Ellis

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Way Looks Morality Aesthetics

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“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.”

Way Mother Fighting Sentiments Primal Being A Mother Sentimentality Always Fighting

Author:Bret Easton Ellis

“A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pretend to be a vampire. I don't really need to pretend, because it's who I am, an emotional vampire. I've just come to expect it. Vampires are real. That I was born this way. That I feed off of other people's real emotions. Search for this night's prey. Who will it be?”

People Way Needs Looks Real Feelings Past Night Born Emotion Emotional Letting Go Who I Am Vampire Prey Numb Born This Way Real Emotion Rules Of Attraction

Author:Bret Easton Ellis

“Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.”

Way Looks Made Said Black Sky Made It

Author:Bret Easton Ellis

“Hello, Halberstam," Owen says, walking by. Hello, Owen," I say, admiring the way he's styled and slicked back his hair, with a part so even and sharp it... devastates me and I make a mental note to ask him where he purchases his hair-care products, which kind of mousse he uses, my final guesses after mulling over the possibilities being Ten-X.”

Way Kind Use Care Asks Possibility Products Hair Walking Ten Notes Finals Hello Admiring Mulling Over Mulling

Book:American Psycho: Picador Classic

Source: American Psycho: Picador Classic

“How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?”

Way Disappointed Looking Forward

Book:American Psycho: Picador Classic

Source: American Psycho: Picador Classic

“I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.”

Ifs Way Ideas Character Creation Resent

Author:Bret Easton Ellis

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

Way Book Feelings Exorcism

Author:Bret Easton Ellis

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

Way Doe Book Able Transport

Author:Bret Easton Ellis

About the Author

Born: March 7, 1964
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 200

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