James Ellroy

“As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.”

“As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.”

“I haven't been to a movie in a year and a half.”

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

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

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

“I'm clenched down, I'm locked in on it, which is my general approach to life.”

“Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.”

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