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. Bret Easton Ellis More Quotes by Bret Easton Ellis More Quotes From Bret Easton Ellis No one ever likes the right person. Bret Easton Ellis right-person likes persons Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do? Bret Easton Ellis evil I keep feeling that people are becoming less human and more animalistic. They seem to think less and feel less so that everyone is operating on a very primitive level. I wonder what you and I will see in our lifetimes. It seems so hopeless yet we must keep on trying ... I guess we can't escape being a product of the times, can we? Bret Easton Ellis feelings people thinking Eventually everyone has to hit the dark side of life - Someone doesn't like you, someone doesn't like your work, someone doesn't love you back... people die. What we have is a generation who are super-confident and super-positive about things, but when the least bit of darkness enters their lives, they're paralyzed. Bret Easton Ellis dark love-you people 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 Bret Easton Ellis doe want father The better you look, the more you see. Bret Easton Ellis nightlife looks But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you. Bret Easton Ellis karma want past Disappear Here. The syringe fills with blood. You're a beautiful boy and that's all that matters. Wonder if he's for sale. People are afraid to merge. To merge. Bret Easton Ellis beautiful boys blood 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 Easton Ellis character way ideas Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride. Bret Easton Ellis disintegration stride lazy I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it. All it says is 'Disappear Here' and even though it’s probably an ad for some resort, it still freaks me out a little and I step on the gas really hard and the car screeches as I leave the light. Bret Easton Ellis car light steps I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning Bret Easton Ellis compassion hair reality Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever. Bret Easton Ellis greed forever sex Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me. Bret Easton Ellis scream want ideas Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do? Bret Easton Ellis holding-on mines people Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other. Bret Easton Ellis life-is-like errors writing Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me. Bret Easton Ellis care people thinking People are afraid to merge. Bret Easton Ellis people Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire - meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead. Bret Easton Ellis issues justice sex That's how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the wreckage, blood streaming from his nose, asking questions that never required answers. That's how I became the boy who never understood how anything worked. That's how I became the boy who wouldn't save a friend. That's how I became the boy who couldn't love the girl. Bret Easton Ellis party girl love
