When I look at Perfidia, I think, "That's a Pulitzer Prize winner. That's a National Book Award winner." It's not going to get it. It's going to be shelved in crime and it's just the way it is. I've done something that no one else has ever done; I've started out as a mystery writer, a police writer, and a crime writer, and I became something entirely different.
L.A.: Come on vacation, go home on probation. - James Ellroy
L.A.: Come on vacation, go home on probation.
- James Ellroy
I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime. - James Ellroy
I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.
The lunatic populism that preceded the Pearl Harbor bombing is astonishing in its permutations, its crisscrossings. Guys like [Catholic priest and co… - James Ellroy
The lunatic populism that preceded the Pearl Harbor bombing is astonishing in its permutations, its crisscrossings. Guys like [Catholic priest and co…
Closure is a preposterous concept worthy of the worst aspects of American daytime TV. - James Ellroy
Closure is a preposterous concept worthy of the worst aspects of American daytime TV.
I learn things late-and only the hard way. - James Ellroy
I learn things late-and only the hard way.
I always cringe when a male friend of mine, who's very fixated on women, puts "compatibility" at the top of his list of attributes that he would be l… - James Ellroy
I always cringe when a male friend of mine, who's very fixated on women, puts "compatibility" at the top of his list of attributes that he would be l…
Some people don’t respond to civility. - James Ellroy
Some people don’t respond to civility.
Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively. - James Ellroy
Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.
How did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books. - James Ellroy
How did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books.
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