Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
Bret Easton EllisIt's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a primal way.
Bret Easton EllisLife is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.
Bret Easton EllisEventually everyone has to hit the dark side of life - Someone doesn't like you, someone doesn't like your work, someone doesn't love you back... people die. What we have is a generation who are super-confident and super-positive about things, but when the least bit of darkness enters their lives, they're paralyzed.
Bret Easton Ellis