Bret Easton Ellis Quotes About Books

• All of my books come from pain.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Pain, Book

  "Bret Easton Ellis: 'So you're a misogynist, a racist – so what? Does it make your art less interesting?'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2010.

• Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Baby, Book, Heart

  FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Aug 04, 2011

• So…” Kimball looks at his book helplessly. “There’s nothing you can tell me about Paul Owen?” “Well.” I sigh. “He led what I suppose was an orderly life, I guess. “ Really stumped, I offer, “He...ate a balanced diet.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Book, Looks, Sigh

• 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.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• No tenía ni idea de que "Menos que cero" fuera a ser leído por alguien fuera de Los Ángeles, y es... créeme, como escritor del libro me divierte y me intriga en cierto modo la idea de que 25 años después siga en circulación y la gente lo siga leyendo.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Zero, Reading, Believe

  "Novelist Bret Easton Ellis". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 29, 2010.

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

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Book, Feelings, Way

  "Bret Easton Ellis: 'So you're a misogynist, a racist - so what? Does it make your art less interesting?'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2010.

• 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.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Book, Thinking, Looks

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. March 17, 1999.

• I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Book, Thinking, Built

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Libro, Escritura, Pasado

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. March 17, 1999.

• I write books to relieve ­myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Pain, Book, Writing

• I think the books are the books. They were conceived as books. They weren't conceived as movies. When I write scripts, that's an idea and a situation that I think is a really good idea for a movie. When I'm writing a book, I'm not thinking, "Oh, this would be a great movie." This would be a very interesting book. And I think the books are things that cannot really be adapted into another medium.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2009.

• 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.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Libro, Escribir, Querer

• Michel Houellebecq is the most interesting, provocative and important European novelist of my generation. Period. No one else comes close. He has written two or maybe three great books, and his latest, The Map and the Territory, is one of them.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Book, Two, Interesting

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

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Book, Doe, Able

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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