“I hate rushing the creative process, but there could definitely be a lot worse lots in life.” HateProcessCreativeI HateCreative ProcessRushing Author:Carson Ellis
“Chapter books are often written in series and kids have come to expect that they'll come out once a year, so publishers want to keep the momentum going. It's the kind of art I love to make, except that the time frame is really nutty.” WantYearsKindArtBookKidsWrittenSeriesChaptersPublishersMomentumNutty Author:Carson Ellis
“I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don't necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade.” ThinkingCertainChoicesUniversalDecadesTimelessChoices You Make Author:Bret Easton Ellis
“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.” ThinkingWayLooksHappensChoicesHappenedDecades80s Author:Bret Easton Ellis
“I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.” I CanNovelWrittenSceneTouched 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.” ThinkingWayLooksBookMatterFictionGoneSubjectsPhotographMy WayPackagesSelectSubject Matter Author:Bret Easton Ellis
“I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.” BelieveEnoughRealizingNovelReaderSmartSophisticatedNarrators Author:Bret Easton Ellis
“Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.” WritingYearsTwoLastsThreeImaginationFictionProseThree YearsWriting Fiction Author:Bret Easton Ellis
“I'm really shocked when critics get morally outraged at my fiction because they think I'm condoning what's going on. I never come in as the author and say, "Hey, okay. I'm interrupting the narrator here. I'm Bret Easton Ellis, and I'm the author."” ThinkingFictionOkayCriticsHeyShockedOutragedNarratorsInterrupting Author:Bret Easton Ellis