“Marry someone rich.”
Bestselling American author Bret Easton Ellis shares his advice with young writers – with a smile.
“It’s a hard business, and it’ll be a lot easier if your spouse is wealthy.”
Continuing on a more serious note, Ellis adds:
“My only advice is to read. That’s how I learned everything. That’s where my passion was created. Reading great books is the only advice I can give a writer.”
“And marry someone rich.”
Bret Easton Ellis was born in 1964 in Los Angeles, California. He is a best-selling American novelist, screenwriter, short story writer, and social commentator whose writings portray, in his words, “the most pessimistic and ironic generation that has ever roamed the earth.”
He debuted with the 1985 bestseller Less Than Zero, a tale of disaffected, rich teenagers in Los Angeles while still an undergraduate student at Bennington College. Since then, he has published six more novels, including The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho (dubbed by Rolling Stone “the most controversial novel of the Nineties”), Glamorama, Lunar Park, Imperial Bedrooms and The Shards, as well as a collection of stories, The Informers. In 2020, he published his first work of nonfiction, White, a defence for the freedom of speech in the social-media age.
Ellis’ works have been translated into almost 30 languages. Four of his books—Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, and The Informers have all been made into films. American Psycho has also been transformed into a Broadway musical.
Bret Easton Ellis was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner in June 2023. The conversation took place at Ellis’ Danish Publisher, Lindhardt & Ringhof, in central Copenhagen.
Camera: Jakob Solbakken
Edited by: Signe Boe Pedersen
Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner
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