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James Ellroy Quotes
Anybody who doesnt know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose. - James Ellroy Quotes
As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didnt move me. - James Ellroy Quotes
As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth Ive created about my work and refine it. - James Ellroy Quotes
As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years. - James Ellroy Quotes
Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer. - James Ellroy Quotes
I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective. - James Ellroy Quotes
I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little. - James Ellroy Quotes
I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. Ive got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, Ive got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman. - James Ellroy Quotes
I dont know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I dont know any criminals. - James Ellroy Quotes
I feel very calm and poised underneath it all, but no less passionate or committed to the work. I wont go soft on you, but I feel calm inside. - James Ellroy Quotes
I have a very intense marriage. - James Ellroy Quotes
I havent been to a movie in a year and a half. - James Ellroy Quotes
I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I dont want to be some stress casualty in early middle age. - James Ellroy Quotes
I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime. - James Ellroy Quotes
I put on such a good show, the story is outrageous, and people dont want to hear that Im basically a reasonable human being. As long as it continues to get me print, Ill continue to perform in an exuberant manner. - James Ellroy Quotes
I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity. - James Ellroy Quotes
I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldnt stand to be ignored. - James Ellroy Quotes
I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers. - James Ellroy Quotes
Im clenched down, Im locked in on it, which is my general approach to life. - James Ellroy Quotes
Im getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people. - James Ellroy Quotes
Ive been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books. - James Ellroy Quotes
It was interesting to write directly about what things meant to me. A lot of the art of writing novels is in telling things by implication. - James Ellroy Quotes
My mother and I will continue on some level that I havent determined yet. I think my mothers a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career. - James Ellroy Quotes
Noir is dead for me because historically, I think its a simple view. Ive taken it as far as it can go. I think Ive expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist. - James Ellroy Quotes
Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it. - James Ellroy Quotes
Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers. - James Ellroy Quotes
The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when youre 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case. - James Ellroy Quotes
When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy. - James Ellroy Quotes
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