Phrase by 'James Ellroy'

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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.

Author: James Ellroy - American Writer
  Myself , School , High School , Stand


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.

Author: James Ellroy - American Writer
  World , Great , Character , Mother


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.

Author: James Ellroy - American Writer
  Me , Simple , View , Great


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

Author: James Ellroy - American Writer
  Life , Down , General , Approach


I have a very intense marriage.

Author: James Ellroy - American Writer
  Marriage , Very , Intense


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.

Author: James Ellroy - American Writer
  You , Age , Alone , Stress


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.

Author: James Ellroy - American Writer
  Me , People , Long , Good


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

Author: James Ellroy - American Writer
  Me , History , Going , Kid


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.

Author: James Ellroy - American Writer
  Everything , World , Politics , Father


Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.

Author: James Ellroy - American Writer
  People , Back , Who , Once


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