I'm grateful for the life I have. I lived bad for many years, and I've got a great life now. I've got… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
L.A. ispolluted. It's overpopulated. But it is very much home. It was inevitable for me, the moving back. I was living in… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I'm clenched down, I'm locked in on it, which is my general approach to life. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“The left one's the hospital, the right one's death. The right one steals your life while the left steals your breath. These… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
How did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I don't have a cellphone or a computer. I deliberately circumscribe my mental life within the periods that I write about, and… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“I never knew her in life. She exists for me through others, in evidence of the ways her death drove them” — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
We do. Or re-create the ones we have, and project. My whole life is projection. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“I am best served in my life’s goals if I lay in the dark, brood, sleep, listen to classical music, spend time… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great… — 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
