James Ellroy Quotes

James Ellroy — American Writer born on March 04, 1948,

Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels The Black Dahlia , The Big Nowhere , L.A. Confidential , White Jazz , American Tabloid , The Cold Six Thousand , and Blood's a Rover ... (wikipedia)

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.

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

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

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.

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.

James Ellroy Quotes

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