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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.

~James Ellroy

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

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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.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: March 4th, 1948

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