My guys are morally weak, and they reach toward a tenuous knowledge of self-sacrifice, and sometimes it's too … - James Ellroy

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Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from their foundations, turned the stream of history from its old channel, and still continues to rule and guide the ages

James Ellroy

My guys are morally weak, and they reach toward a tenuous knowledge of self-sacrifice, and sometimes it's too late. I find that moving. It's not a life I'd want to live. But, then, I'm not completely my books.

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I don't think I will write anything that could be even remotely considered a genre novel from this point on. I think I've graduated.

Genre, Remotely, Think, Thinking, Writing

I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done.

Book, Books, Done, Think, Thinking, Trying

I don't think I came out of anybody. I think I developed out of the influences I described in My Dark Places. American history, L. A. of the 1950s. I'm comfortable with that.

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I'm not interested in popular culture. I hate Quentin Tarantino. I rarely go to movies. I hate rock 'n' roll. I work. I think. I listen to classical music. I brood. I like sports cars.

Classical, Culture, Hate, Like, Sports, Thinking

The 250-page outline for American Tabloid. The books are so dense. They're so complex, you cannot write like I write off the top of your head. It's the combination of that meticulousness and the power of the prose and, I think, the depth of the characterizations and the risks that I've taken with language that give the books their clout. And that's where I get pissed off at a lot of my younger readers.

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