James Ellroy

I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity. ↗

— James Ellroy

#bad men #come #grips #humanity #i

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age. ↗

— James Ellroy

#alone #casualty #early #focus #hurt

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers. ↗

— James Ellroy

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I'm clenched down, I'm locked in on it, which is my general approach to life. ↗

— James Ellroy

#clenched #down #general #i #life

I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people. ↗

— James Ellroy

#class #fans #getting #i #middle

I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books. ↗

— James Ellroy

#books #bunch #i #i love #important

Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist. ↗

— James Ellroy

#any #as far as #because #dead #deal

Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it. ↗

— James Ellroy

#chandler #committed #gave #murder #once

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers. ↗

— James Ellroy

#fanatical #get #people #readers #rock

The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case. ↗

— James Ellroy

#fact #hate #in fact #lose #lost