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Famous James Ellroy Quotes
“Closure is a preposterous concept worthy of the worst aspects of American daytime TV.”
“I almost had an intransigent mental spirit. I always wanted things.”
“How did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books.”
“I wanted things. Whatever it cost and whatever it took, I would do it. And that's it.”
“If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel.”
“I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies.”
“I needed to address that I've had some profound moral shifts in my own life.”
“I think I'm out of crime fiction now, and I think the dividing line is American Tabloid.”
“I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done.”
“To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.”
“Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.”
“Some people don’t respond to civility.”
“Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.”
“I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.”
“As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.”
“Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.”
“I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.”