In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were no concepts of identity,… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
The novel is final form; it's the ultimate individual final form. Television and motion pictures never get there. You'd be fabulous to… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
My mother and I will continue on some level that I havent determined yet. I think my mothers a great character, and… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I want to have enough data, so I won't write myself into thin air, so that I can extrapolate and give you… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother's a great character, and… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
The 250-page outline for American Tabloid. The books are so dense. They're so complex, you cannot write like I write off the… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
There are a lot of Ellroy lifts, man. This guy went to school. But then there's a willful thing that comes over… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Anything less than total candor was bullshit. I owed that to my readers, I owed that to myself, and I owed that… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“Fear and I played peek-a-boo - it always seemed to grab my balls and twist just when it felt like something inside me could… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
My father actually went to college, and my mother went to nursing school, so, you know. I wouldn't... They were actually too square and… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I've created a narrative of the world. I live in the world - tenuously, most times. I've avoided the digital world. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were no concepts of identity, no politics… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“It all came down to money - the great equalizer and common denominator.” — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“I didn't care who we were. I required no consummation. I knew that whoever we were and whatever we had would never stop.” — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Where’s your sketch pad?” I asked. … “I gave that up,” Kay said. “I wasn’t very good, so I changed my major.” “To what?”… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I don't want to recover from writing this book [The Onion]. I feel very poised. I feel like I'm with my mother for the… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
