American - Writer | March 4, 1948 -
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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I'm clenched down, I'm locked in on it, which is my general approach to life.
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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.
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I put on such a good show, the story is outrageous, and people don't want to hear that I'm basically a reasonable human being. As long as it continues to get me print, I'll continue to perform in an exuberant manner.
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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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When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy.
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Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.
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I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.
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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.
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I haven't been to a movie in a year and a half.
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I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.
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