Quotes by Bret Easton Ellis

About Bret Easton Ellis:

Bret Easton Ellis is an American novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer. His works have been translated into 27 languages. He was at first regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack, which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney. He is a self-proclaimed satirist, whose trademark technique, as a writer, is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style. Ellis employs a technique of linking novels with common, recurring characters.
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The better you look, the more you see.

Bret Easton Ellis

What? Did we end up hating each other? Did we end up the way we thought we always knew would? Did I end up wearing khakis because of that fucking ad?

Bret Easton Ellis

Everything suddenly seems displaced, subtle gradations erase borders, but it’s more forceful than that.

Bret Easton Ellis

The Dave Matthews Band’s “Crash into Me” played over the montage, not that the lyrics had anything to do with the images the song was played over but it was “haunting”, it was “moody”, it was “summing things up”, it gave the footage...

Bret Easton Ellis

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Bret Easton Ellis

I have to return some videotapes

Bret Easton Ellis

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

Bret Easton Ellis

I'm resourceful," Price is saying. "I'm creative, I'm young, unscrupulous, highly motivate, highly skilled. In essence what I'm saying is that society can afford to lose me. I'm an

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I had all the characteristics of a human being-- flesh, blood, skin, hair-- but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that the normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was sim...

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This was the geography around which my reality revolved: it did not occur to me, ever, that people were good or that a man was capable of change or that the world could be a better place through one’s taking pleasure in a feeling or a look or a ges...

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At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd; though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath, I ...

Bret Easton Ellis

Akthent on thee latht thyllable.

Bret Easton Ellis

I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too.

Bret Easton Ellis

This is laid down with a groove funkier and blacker than anything Prince of Michael Jackson--or any other black artist of the recent years for that matter--has come up with.

Bret Easton Ellis

Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?" [...] "'When I see a pretty girl walking down the street I think two things. One part of me wants to take her out and talk to her and be real nice and sweet and treat her right.'" I stop finish my J&B in on...

Bret Easton Ellis

Her need is so immense that you become surrounded by it; this need is so enormous that you realize you can actually control it, and I know this because I've done it before.

Bret Easton Ellis

The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.

Bret Easton Ellis

The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track.

Bret Easton Ellis

... Because the writer resented that she had turned to me I became the handsome and dazed narrator, incapable of love or kindness. That's how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the wreckage, blood streaming from his nose, asking ques...

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The audience-- the book's actual cast-- quickly realized what had happened. The reason the movie dropped everything that made the novel real was because there was no way the parents who ran the studio would ever expose their children in the same blac...

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Author Bio

  • NameBret Easton Ellis
  • DescriptionAmerican novelist
  • BornMarch 7, 1964
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Screenwriter; Novelist
  • WorksLess Than Zero; American Psycho