You don't market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It's a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what you do when you're confronted by criticism. You just don't listen to it.
After a while you learn that everything stops. - Bret Easton Ellis
After a while you learn that everything stops.
- Bret Easton Ellis
I keep feeling that people are becoming less human and more animalistic. They seem to think less and feel less so that everyone is operating on a ver… - Bret Easton Ellis
I keep feeling that people are becoming less human and more animalistic. They seem to think less and feel less so that everyone is operating on a ver…
I write books to relieve myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period. - Bret Easton Ellis
I write books to relieve myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.
...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you. - Bret Easton Ellis
...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.
But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you. - Bret Easton Ellis
But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it. - Bret Easton Ellis
Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it.
I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him. - Bret Easton Ellis
I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.
I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked. - Bret Easton Ellis
I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.
The better you look, the more you see. - Bret Easton Ellis
The better you look, the more you see.
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