Scott Ellis Quotes

Being twins goes way beyond my relationship with my brother. That's a lot deeper bond.

Me and my brother, as anybody who's a twin will tell you... it's a competitive relationship. Ours is really competitive.

Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.

When Yauch died, it was really like losing my older brother. I mean, I have biological older brothers, but growing up, Adam really was my older brother.

I am a twin, but my brother and I aren't identical, so it's not such a big deal. But when you share bunk beds and birthdays and a womb with someone, you have a special connection. It definitely feels different from the relationship I have with my other siblings - my twin and I are more connected. Jacob is a conservationist.

But it's funny growing up, because everyone treats you - as twins growing up, everyone treats you like you're one person a lot of times, which can be frustrating. But then I think we embraced that when we were young.

The way Jughead talks to Archie and vice versa is very much the way I would talk to my twin.

Something Dylan and I really don't care much for is leaning into the identical twin thing. It doesn't make sense.

Everyone loves twins.

My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.

And then I wonder, does my brother think of me this way? We entered this world together, one after the other, beats in a pulse. But I will be first to leave it. That's what I've been promised. When we were children, did he dare to imagine an empty space beside him where I then stood giggling, blowing soap bubbles through my fingers? When I die, will he be sorry that he loved me? Sorry that we were twins? Maybe he already is.

I'm fascinated by twins. It's such an interesting thing. I'm an only child, so I don't have a sibling. But, if you think about the bond that siblings have, that intensifies so much when you think about being in the womb together.

We're twins, and so we love each other more than other people.

As a twin, I operate with twin desires.

Twins are so practical. It's always nice to have a spare.

If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, “That guy is kinda delusional.”

I was more feminine. I was a girly-girl until I moved to New York. Then I got really into the androgynous look of the early-'90s club scene.

What I mean is this: you meet someone, you think about them. You're already changing because of the way you think about them. You meet them again, you think about them some more, you're changing again. And on it goes. You are changing right now. Before my eyes.

Fred and George turned to each other and said together, “Wow — we’re identical!

I have the feeling that I know who I am, only I'm not anymore.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

I used to be somebody. Now I’m somebody else.

[Raymond Roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around his person and that everyone in the street would be able to see that he had written a book. This is the obscure desire harboured by everyone who writes. It is true that the first text one writes is neither written for others, nor because one is what one is: one writes to become other than what one is. One tries to modify one's way of being through the act of writing.

Transformation Isn't easy when most of the people in your life think you're already perfect, and want you to stay just how they see you. Try to begin a new phase, you'd better expect push-back. Try to create a whole new you, your friend list will shrink considerably.

I was unrecognizable to myself; I saw my reflection in a window; I didn't know my own face.