Bret Easton Ellis Quotes

Bret Easton Ellis — American Author born on March 07, 1964,

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... (wikipedia)

Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.

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

I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

All of my books come from pain.

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.