My role relationship to the event will continue to mutate. My relationship to my mother will continue to change as I revise my judgments of her depending on what I learn about her. It goes on. But I feel no less obsessive about my work and no less passionately committed to the life I have now, but I feel poised inside. Which is a good thing to feel at 48.
James EllroyI've created a narrative of the world. I live in the world - tenuously, most times. I've avoided the digital world.
James EllroyI don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals.
James EllroyAs a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.
James EllroyI am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific what Tolstoy is to the Russian novel and what Beethoven is to music.
James EllroyMy role relationship to the event will continue to mutate. My relationship to my mother will continue to change as I revise my judgments of her depending on what I learn about her. It goes on. But I feel no less obsessive about my work and no less passionately committed to the life I have now, but I feel poised inside. Which is a good thing to feel at 48.
James Ellroy