Bret Easton Ellis
Novelist
Bret Easton Ellis is a novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of seven books, including "Less Than Zero" and "American Psycho"—both of which were adapted into successful films. His most recent novel, "Imperial Bedrooms," was released earlier this year.
How Digital Formats Are Changing Fiction Writing
Digital books and iPads are certainly changing the way that people write, but so did computers when they first came out. You just have to move with the culture and […]
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Fiction That Originates in Pain
Writing a novel isn’t a practical, logical thing to do. The author starts by writing an outline from an “emotional place” and then becomes a “cool technician” to shape it […]
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How Writing for the Screen Is Different From Writing for the Page
“It’s very easy to write a script compared to a book,” says the author. A novel is not a logical thing and it doesn’t come from a logical place—a screenplay […]
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Launching a Book in the “Post-Empire” Era of Publishing
It’s much less fun to release a book these days—with all the necessary Twitter and Facebook promotions—than when the novelist began.
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Following the Same Characters, Novel After Novel
The author has “no idea” why characters from his previous novels reappear in his new ones. “It just feels right.”
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How Much Violence Is Too Much Violence in Literature?
“There’s an argument to be made, sure, that the violence in ‘American Psycho’ was gratuitous,” says the author. But he also sees how the book is “a kind of performance […]
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