Bret Ellis Quotations

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

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

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.

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 .

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

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

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

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.

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