After a while you learn that everything stops. Bret Easton Ellis More Quotes by Bret Easton Ellis More Quotes From 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? Bret Easton Ellis realletting-gopast It's like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful, like Mom just trying to make the best of things. Bret Easton Ellis smartdadmom 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. Bret Easton Ellis fightingmotherway 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. Bret Easton Ellis tuneshurtmean 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. Bret Easton Ellis lookswaythinking 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 writingbookthinking Hip," I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell's---my mouth foaming, all I could think about were insects, lots of insects, and running at pigeons, foaming at the mouth and running at pigeons. Bret Easton Ellis runningnightthinking 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 writingbookpast 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." Bret Easton Ellis narratorsfictionthinking 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 writingtwoyears I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels. Bret Easton Ellis narratorssmartbelieve 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 booklooksthinking I learned that you really don't have any control as a writer. Waah, waah, waah. Big deal. Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control. As someone who's just writing scripts, you just kind of have to shrug. I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general. It is what it is. Bret Easton Ellis issueswritingdirectors 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. Bret Easton Ellis touchednovelscene I write books to relieve myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period. Bret Easton Ellis painwritingbook I have to return some videotapes Bret Easton Ellis psychoreturn 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. Bret Easton Ellis up-to-youkissinglove-you Adjust my dreams for me. Bret Easton Ellis dream I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat. Bret Easton Ellis take-a-deep-breathheartlaughing People just... disappear," he says. "The Earth just opens up and swallows people," I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex. "Eerie." Kimball yawns, stretching. "Really eerie." "Ominous." I nod my agreement. "It's just"- he sights, exasperated- "futile. Bret Easton Ellis eerieagreementsight
