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All I have is withering perception. Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate.
— James Ellroy
Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.
— James Ellroy
I indulge prayer when the world seems incomprehensible and only a plea to the incomprehensible makes sense.
— James Ellroy
I am the son of a murdered woman - anybody who'd call my books misogynistic is, frankly, out of their fucking mind.— James Ellroy
Bergen, and Oldfield. The
— James Ellroy
And you love to read, you love to escape, right?
— James Ellroy
All I want to do is make serious movies that explore social issues and turn a profit, and slip the schnitzel to Jane DePugh.
— James Ellroy
So many wicked ways to scandal-skin a cat.
— James Ellroy
She's good to common folk. They make her feel authentic. She covets their approval in small doses.
— James Ellroy
I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals.
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I have a very intense marriage.
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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
Call me Dudley. We're of equal rank. I'm older, but you're far better looking. I can tell we're going to be grand partners.
— James Ellroy
I had chewed a big steak two hours before, swallowing the juice and spitting out the meat, and I could smell animal blood in my sweat.
— James Ellroy
Breuning drove. Dudley sat up front Carlisle sat in back, with three sawed-off shotguns.
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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
There is no proportion. Pearl Harbor took care of that.
— James Ellroy
I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.
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Cab drivers are night-riding denizens of the first order. They view wretched foibles from a gutter perspective.
— James Ellroy
Downtown, a dress for Meg- I do it every time I kill a man.
— James Ellroy
Don't be so goddamn proper. Don't be such a fucking saint.
— James Ellroy
Some people don't respond to civility.
— James Ellroy
To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.
— James Ellroy
I got an alibi, just in case you think I did it. Tighter than a crab's ass, and that is air tight.
— James Ellroy
Yes, my friends - it's becoming Jewniversally apparent.
— James Ellroy
Closure is bullshit.
— James Ellroy
1:52 a.m. His favorite nightcap - coffee and Benzedrine.
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I want to burn down the distance between us
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I haven't been to a movie in a year and a half.
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He felt sandbagged. Doomsday, Armageddon. Booze begets instant misconduct and regret. He walked to the couch and fell down.
— James Ellroy
The driver drove by roadway Braille
— James Ellroy
I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.
— James Ellroy
As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.
— James Ellroy
I got an emergency leave. I visited my dad on his deathbed. His last words to me: "Try to pick up every waitress who serves you.
— James Ellroy
You get up in the morning because you might meet a woman. And if you stay at home by yourself, alone, you will not meet a woman.
— James Ellroy
I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.
— James Ellroy
You can't make history all the time, Dougie.Sometimes the best you can do is make money. — James Ellroy
Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.
— James Ellroy
L.A.: Come on vacation, go home on probation.
— James Ellroy
They were heedless of the fact that they'd gain more converts if they just stopped talking.
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It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.
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Cherchez la femme, Bucky. Remember that.
— James Ellroy
I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.
— James Ellroy
