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

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James Ellroy
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Autobiographer
Crime Writer
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The wildest ride in modern crime novel exoticum. A novel so steeped in milieu that it feels as if you've blasted to mars in the grip of a demon who won't let you go. Read this book, savor the language-it's the last-and the most compelling word in thrillers.
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I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done.
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I cleaned up. I quit drinking, I quit doing drugs, I quit stealing, I quit breaking into houses, I tried to quit being a bad human being. I developed a conscience later in life than many. I call it the lost-time-regained dynamic.
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I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored.
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I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.
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Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.
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I think I'm out of crime fiction now, and I think the dividing line is American Tabloid.
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We do. Or re-create the ones we have, and project. My whole life is projection.
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If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel.
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I learn things late-and only the hard way.
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Where’s your sketch pad?” I asked. … “I gave that up,” Kay said. “I wasn’t very good, so I changed my major.” “To what?” “To pre-med, then psychology, then English lit, then history.” “I like a woman who knows what she wants.” Kay smiled. “So do I, but I don’t know any.
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Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.
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L.A. ispolluted. It's overpopulated. But it is very much home. It was inevitable for me, the moving back. I was living in San Francisco, and Joan broke it off with me, and I needed a place to live. I'd been divorced. And I needed to write movies and TV shows to earn a living. Alimony. All that. So I figured what the hell, I'll go back to L.A.
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The novel is final form it's the ultimate individual final form. Television and motion pictures never get there. You'd be fabulous to think that something you write is even going to be filmed. I give it the best shot of which I'm capable. But it's more a payday for me. And if I didn't have alimony and the full-time assistant.
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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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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 almost had an intransigent mental spirit. I always wanted things.
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America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
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There's none with me, although you've seen me before - I'm outrageous.
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I was in L.A. in '08. It was a cold Saturday night. I had spread my phone number out to a score of women and was just indulging this sweet, sad, elegiac, bale loneliness - don't tell me you haven't been there.
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