Bombastic Quote by James Ellroy Download Open image “I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done.” — James Ellroy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bombastic Book Books Done Thinking Trying
I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to engage deeply… — Catherine Mayer Copy Share Image
I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute. — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I've done 80 books and if anyone has entertained the idea of owning one of my books, I think this is the book that… — Art Wolfe Copy Share Image
I try not to let myself get too wrapped up in the image of whatever my books have become in the outside world. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
I have a very short attention span, so books have never been my thing. — Jason Jones Copy Share Image
I calmed myself by walking into my nearby bookstore and marveling at all the books other people had written. So many people had finished… — Heidi Julavits 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
'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms - you had a main title theme that was… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
The natural world is full of females falling hard for stupid male display behavior, including bright feathers, big antlers, and bombastic courtship rituals. — Richard Conniff Copy Share Image
Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I always thought that Seth [Rogen] was a fun, caustic, bombastic, sweet, underdog-type of person that I would root for the way you used… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
I want her to be powerful on these covers, and sometimes that's a quiet power and other times it's a more bombastic power. But… — Cliff Chiang Copy Share Image
I like the big bombastic singers, but I'm also very drawn to what I call character singers. They're people who obviously aren't very huge… — Boy George Copy Share Image
I'm too drunk to recall much of what I've said. Which, come to think of it, is probably just as well, judging by the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has gone from making absurd comments to being downright dangerous with his bombastic rhetoric. — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
Like all of you I'm angry. I'm angry at what's happening to our nation. Citizens, it's time to take our country back. Bombastic insults… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
“Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic… — Hans Frank Copy Share Image