James Ellroy Quotes

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.

James Ellroy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 4, 1948

Topics

MyselfSchoolHigh SchoolStandHigh

We live in a very unequal society.

Jeremy Corbyn

LiveSocietyUnequalVery

I've always had a good handle on drawing children.

Jeff Lemire

GoodChildrenDrawingAlwaysHandle

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Socrates

LiveGreatWorldHonorWayPretend

Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now.

Simon Van Booy

LoveDeathValueMeWorldThink

Ever since I was in the Chelsea academy, I've had that awareness that people were saying I would be the first one to break through since John Terry. I believed I could, but the opportunities didn't quite come for me.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

PeopleMeSayingOpportunitiesFirst

Our military is doing everything it can to equip Iraq's forces so our troops can come home as soon as possible, but we cannot leave until the job is done.

Mike Rogers

HomeJobDoingDonePossibleLeave

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.

Liz Smith

BestYouGrowingBecomeFlirtOlder

It's nice to be able to communicate digitally with people around the world.

Jared Leto

PeopleWorldNiceAbleCommunicate

I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not that you say, 'I want to write a science fiction book.' You start from the other end, and what you have to say dictates the form of it.

Doris Lessing

ScienceStartBookEndProblemYou

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

Dean Kamen

WorkHard WorkTimeSacrificeYou

Sky's the limit. I don't have a vision, because I want to do everything that I can.

Ashley Nell Tipton

VisionSkyI CanWantLimitBecause

Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story!

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

GoodStorySearchNothingMore

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