bret ellis

Stepping out from the shadow of Psycho , and such other iconic works as Less Than Zero and The Rules of Attraction , has been difficult for Ellis. I had spent 10 years working on an outline about a writer very much like myself, ... He was a fictional writer who had written fictional books, one about a serial killer. He'd had hard times, drug and alcohol problems, and had fathered an 11-year-old boy. Something was stopping me from writing the book. Then I thought, this guy has similarities to you, why don't you make him you

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I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

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you simply didn't have to pay as much attention to things. The precise pose was no longer required.

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

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I hadn't published a book in six years so I didn't know what to expect. It has been going very well. They've all been packed.

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Fun is what reading a book should be. I had fun writing it. I wanted a reader to be gripped but it shouldn't be a heavy experience.

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We were all such Didion junkies in college that might still be the highlight of my career.

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I was doing Ray-Ban ads at 22. I was posing for the covers of English magazines on a tennis court, on a throne, on the deck of my condo in a purple robe. ... I crashed a borrowed Ferrari in Southampton and its owner just smiled (for some reason I was naked).

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I totally relate to Tom Cruise, ... Hes not crazy, its just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

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I'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean The writer who forces himself to sit down and write for seven hours every day might be wasting those seven hours if he's not in the mood and doesn't feel the juice. I don't discipline equals creativity.

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I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.

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