James Ellroy Quotes


I like to have fun out there. I work hard, and then I get to cut loose and go out and tour, and I enjoy it. I like to go out and meet the people. I love to sell books.


Citations

Ellroy, James. Conversations with James Ellroy. Edited by Steven Powell, University Press of Mississippi, 2012, p. 180.

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James Ellroy
James Ellroy
  • Born: March 4, 1948
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer

Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels The Black Dahlia (1987), The Big Nowhere (1988), L.A. Confidential (1990), White Jazz (1992), American Tabloid (1995), The Cold Six Thousand (2001), and Blood's a Rover (2009).