192 Quotes by James Ellroy

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.

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

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

For a much lauded writer, I’m not terribly self-absorbed. In social situations, which are difficult for me – I mean, this is an interview – I’m normally uncomfortable talking about myself.

They moved me and scared me. I replayed the tapes and nailed the source of my fear. The women sounded smug. They were entrenched and content in their victimhood.

The driver drove by roadway Braille.

The left one’s the hospital, the right one’s death. The right one steals your life while the left steals your breath. These hands are bad juju and the bad boogaloo, they’re the teeth of the demon as he slides down the flue.

Twenty-nine years old and on her third masters degree because she’s afraid to go out and meet the world. Sad, isn’t it?” Mal sighed. “Tragic.

Lose thirty pounds within the next thirty days, or I’ll have Chief Horrall put you on the ‘Fat Husband’s Diet’ recently extolled in the Ladies’ Home Journal.