James Ellroy Quotes

We do. Or re-create the ones we have, and project. My whole life is projection.

Sometimes I'll leave the house and go to a delicatessen down the street from me - it's been there a million years - just because I can look at people.

I don't think I will write anything that could be even remotely considered a genre novel from this point on. I think I've graduated.

If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel.

Classical music fulfills for me the function of narrative. I spend 90 minutes a day listening to symphonic music - Beethoven to Bartók - some chamber pieces, and that's my enrichment.

I needed to address that I've had some profound moral shifts in my own life.

For a much lauded writer, I'm not terribly self-absorbed. In social situations, which are difficult for me - I mean, this is an interview - I'm normally uncomfortable talking about myself.

Joe Wambaugh's a friend. I know him only casually, but I like him a lot. I think he likes my books.

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

I don't think I came out of anybody. I think I developed out of the influences I described in My Dark Places. American history, L.A. of the 1950s. I'm comfortable with that.

I wanted things. Whatever it cost and whatever it took, I would do it. And that's it.

blue eyes so light that it looked like she sent them out to be bleached

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

Downtown, a dress for Meg- I do it every time I kill a man.