335 Quotes by Bret Easton Ellis

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.

I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction.

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.

I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.

Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning,

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.

Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.