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Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist.
James Ellroy
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James Ellroy
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
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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.
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L.A.: Come on vacation, go home on probation.
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I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.
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I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies.
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As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.
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I don't have children. I serve the world and I serve God by living as deep within my work as I can, reveling in the language of other times and putting it forth for the world.
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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.
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There are a lot of Ellroy lifts, man. This guy went to school. But then there's a willful thing that comes over me - God gives it to me - where I go, That's real nice, let's just go home, pat yourself on the back, good dog, good dog, and wake up in the morning and go to work.
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I want to have enough data, so I won't write myself into thin air, so that I can extrapolate and give you this secret human infrastructure. The only way I sate my own curiosity is to create this from scratch. There must be commanding love stories. There must be great moral cost.
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Joe Wambaugh's a friend. I know him only casually, but I like him a lot. I think he likes my books.
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Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.
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We do. Or re-create the ones we have, and project. My whole life is projection.
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I almost had an intransigent mental spirit. I always wanted things.
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Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.
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I kept saying, Stop me now. It's going to my head. I got some photos. Really, I did! It's not my noblest sexual self in these moments, but I want to have fun. I want to undress. I get off my leash to go out and perform. Some other writers are just discomforted by the way I behave in public. Because they're loath to perform.
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I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.
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I'm way past the idea of using ideology or political view as a gauge of human character. I simply don't believe it. And many people, I tend to think most people, feel that way. Since I don't have to worry about it, I'm happy.
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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 looking for in a woman. I would replace compatibility with dialectic.
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The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.
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