When I look at Perfidia, I think, "That's a Pulitzer Prize winner. That's a National Book Award winner." It's not going to get it. It's going to be shelved in crime and it's just the way it is. I've done something that no one else has ever done; I've started out as a mystery writer, a police writer, and a crime writer, and I became something entirely different.
James EllroyI wanted to portray a newly democratized, enclosed society. I wanted to show how extraordinarily fluid people are in their embrace of other human beings.
James EllroyI got a woman I'm loyal to above all things, above my career. She's profound to me. I'm quiet. I live in Kansas City. I work.
James EllroyI am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.
James Ellroy[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people.
James Ellroy