"You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in the past, or what they'll say about you in the future."

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I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where I think the author's photograph is part of the package. And I have gone out of my way to select the photograph to connect to the subject matter of each book.

— Bret Easton Ellis