“I always got trashed by people because I liked to go to nightclubs. When I was in my 20s, it always was so weird to me that everyone was being so mean because I liked to go to clubs. Should I have been sitting in a garret with a plume pen and a candle? You’re 23, you want to have fun. And I feel the same way now. I can’t put up that pose of pretending to care about ‘literature’ and publishing and awards and reviews.”
Vice has a very lengthy interview with Bret Easton Ellis.
(via The Millions)
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