Bret Easton Ellis Quotes

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

I'm not really sure if I have anything that inspires me.

I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

I'm not entirely sure why I write.

I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.

Whatever's going on in my life shows up in the writing room.

No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart...Delve into yourself for a deep answer

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

I was actually looking for answers where I kept asking myself - what am I doing?

People would say to me, 'Who do you want to be as an artist?' And I would just look at them because I didn't know.

You learn a lot about yourself just by writing it down.

I started writing out all of my feelings, and people asked me, 'Have you ever thought of recording your music?' It was something I'd always thought of, but I'd never really had the confidence.

Sometimes, I'm not sure why I wind up doing some of the things I do.

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.

Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue.