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James Ellroy Quotes

American - Writer | March 4, 1948 -

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.

Mother Truth Time Hate Parent Lose

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.

Truth I Am Truth Is Too Much Side

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

Love History Thinking American Crime

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

I Am Writing Career Play Take Off

I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.

Life Marriage Great Woman Man I Am

As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.

Mother Black Thought Crime Shore

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

Politics Know Crime Got Loose Who

I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals.

Know Up Stuff Criminals Anybody Any

Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer.

Book Road Cops Books Killer Every

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.

Myself School High School Stand High

My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother's a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career.

Mother Character Great Writing World

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

Men Humanity Bad Want See Come

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