James Ellroy quotes | Thousands Of Quotes

Search for quotes

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.

I have a very intense marriage.

James Ellroy

Marriage

I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.

I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little.

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

I put on such a good show, the story is outrageous, and people don't want to hear that I'm basically a reasonable human being. As long as it continues to get me print, I'll continue to perform in an exuberant manner.

As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.