A Quote by Bret Easton Ellis

I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.

Bret Easton Ellis

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Bret Easton Ellis
American - Author
Born: March 7, 1964

I would say the reason that I've never written a novel is because I've never written a novel.

Deborah Eisenberg

I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing.

Joan Didion

In the first 27 years of my life, I never had written a single non-technical word. I went to engineering college and went to business school. I never knew I could write fiction of any form.

Karan Bajaj

... I had always written but I never took it seriously. It was a way of life, not a living.

Alice Kahn

Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word.

Alan Bennett

All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at the same time, a novel is never autobiographical even if it describes the life of the author. Literary writing is a completely different medium.

John Banville

I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.

Don DeLillo

You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will never really know until you have written the whole of it and submitted it for publication.

Ngaio Marsh

... thething I am proudest of in my whole business life is that I do not take, that I never took in all my life, and never, never! will take, one single penny more than 6% on any loan or any contract.

Hetty Green

I never felt like a happy-go-lucky ingenue to begin with. And parts are written better when you're older. When you're young, you're written to be an ingenue, and you're written to be a quality. You're actually not written to be a person, you're written for your youth to inspire someone else, usually a man. So I find it just much more liberating.

Laura Linney

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

Linda Ronstadt

Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.

Curt Schilling

I've never written a hard journalism piece in my life. I've never wanted to do that.

Laurence Shames

I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does.

Elizabeth Bishop

And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character.

Mary Tyler Moore

Never, never, before Heaven, have I thought of you but as the single, bright, pure, blessed recollection of my boyhood and my youth. Never have I from the first, and never shall I to the last, regard your part in my life, but as something sacred, never to be lightly thought of, never to be esteemed enough, never, until death, to be forgotten.

Charles Dickens

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