Bret Ellis Quotations

Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre novels. I wanted to write a Stephen King novel and a Robert Ludlum novel. I loved those genres and those writers.

Mailer is a genius. He's the one I most connect with in terms of fiction his range is so wide. That's the sort of boldness I aspire to.

My father's ashes were kept in a safe deposit box for a long time,

I didn't want to write another long experimental novel.

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.

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

The writer in the new novel is haunted by everything - his father, the things he wrote. American Psycho haunts me and it will be on my gravestone. That's why it is such an important part of Lunar Park .

As a writer you slant all evidence in favor of the conclusions you want to produce, and you rarely tilt in favor of the truth,

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

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

After spending three years with Patrick Bateman (from 1991's

I'm a believer that a book should exist on its own,

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.

I locked myself in a room for a month,