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" Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers. "
James Ellroy
Youth
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" I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers. "
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" I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people. "
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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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" I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime. "
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" Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose. "
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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. "
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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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" I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books. "
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" 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. "
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Chance
Response
Interview
" I haven't been to a movie in a year and a half. "
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Movie
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" The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case. "
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Lost
" 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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View
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" I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective. "
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Writing
Career
" I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity. "
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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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" Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it. "
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Really
Who
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Authority
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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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Focus
Alone
Age
" I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals. "
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Criminals
Up
Anybody
" I have a very intense marriage. "
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Marriage
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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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