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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.
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There's none with me, although you've seen me before - I'm outrageous. — James Ellroy

The overarching joy and lasting appeal of noir is that it makes doom fun. — James Ellroy

Bergen, and Oldfield. The — James Ellroy

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

And you love to read, you love to escape, right? — James Ellroy

Serial killers were hopped-up eyeball fuckers and ravaged inner children. They were scary in the moment and as dismissible as an empty box of popcorn. — 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

Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively. — 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. — James Ellroy

I have a very intense marriage. — James Ellroy

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. — James Ellroy

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. — James Ellroy

Cab drivers are night-riding denizens of the first order. They view wretched foibles from a gutter perspective. — James Ellroy

It all came down to money - the great equalizer and common denominator. — 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

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose. — 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

I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity. — James Ellroy

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

Envy thou not the oppressor, And choose none of his ways. - Proverbs 3:31 — 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. — James Ellroy

I want to burn down the distance between us — James Ellroy

May giant circus elephants shit on your lawn. May bug-eyed gargoyles eat your young. — James Ellroy

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

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. — James Ellroy

I haven't been to a movie in a year and a half. — James Ellroy

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

"War gives men a plain-and-simple something to do ... Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate." It's a romantic manifesto. — James Ellroy

It's all sex for me. Politics is sex. Race is sex. It's the novel. It's the novel! — 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

Some Japs killed themselves. Who gives a shit? No tickee, no washee. Where's Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto? It's Sunday morning - this sure beats church. — 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

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. — James Ellroy

They were heedless of the fact that they'd gain more converts if they just stopped talking. — James Ellroy

If it would've been me, I would've left Hutch out of it. 'Cause Hutch, he was mean. — James Ellroy

It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one. — James Ellroy

Cherchez la femme, Bucky. Remember that. — James Ellroy

Blue eyes so light that it looked like she sent them out to be bleached — James Ellroy

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

Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger. — James Ellroy

Qualifications don't count. All Ike did was invade Europe and look like your uncle. — James Ellroy

You'd be better served taxing your conscience for those who deserve your regret. — James Ellroy