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“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

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

I've created a narrative of the world. I live in the world - tenuously, most times. I've avoided the digital world.

— James Ellroy

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

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

“It all came down to money - the great equalizer and common denominator.”

— James Ellroy

I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies.

— James Ellroy

“Don't make a career out of underestimating me." — Claire de Haven”

— James Ellroy

“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

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

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

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