#ellis

Ellis: "What's so funny?" Skyla: You're funny," I say. "You look real scary. I bet your mom's proud, though." I don't know why I add that last bit, I just do. ↗

— Addison Moore

#skyla #funny

Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm sorry, but the job is getting up in the fucking morning and writing for a living. ↗

— Warren Ellis

#warren-ellis #writing #writers-on-writing

I have to return some videotapes ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#bale #bret #christian #easton #ellis

Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it. ↗

— Aljean Harmetz

#lies #lying #writers #writing #world-war-ii

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe. ↗

— Nicholas Breton

#foe #friend #hellish #hollow #know

I just find things that work and embellish them. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#find #i #just #them #things

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#characters #creating #define #dislike #embellish

People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts. ↗

— Joey Santiago

#ask #change #embellish #going #guitar

He glanced up once, eyes bored. “Please stop talking. I’m trying to eat. ↗

— Kate Avery Ellison

#funny #kate-avery-ellison #the-curse-girl #will #will-to-beauty

Things changing, failing apart, fading, another year, a few more moves, a hard person who doesn't give a fuck, a boredom so monumental it humbles, arrangements so fleeting made by people you don't even know that it requires you to lose any sense of reality you might have once acquired, expectations so unreasonable you become superstitious about ever matching them. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#bryan #easton #ellis #japan #the-informers