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Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.

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James Ellroy

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.

Came, Dark, History, Influence, Places, Thinking
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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

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.

Book, Guys, Moving, Sacrifice, Toward, Weak

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.

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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.

Book, Combination, Depth, Taken, Writing
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