I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.

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• Bret Easton Ellis:

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

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

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

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  Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports

• Bret Easton Ellis:

  Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't ha

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  I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

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  I don't know why I write what I write.

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