James ellroy

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...

I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored.

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

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

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.

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...

I'm clenched down, I'm locked in on it, which is my general approach to life.

I haven't been to a movie in a year and a half.

I have a very intense marriage.