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Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.
As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.
As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.
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... (more James Ellroy quotes)
Ellroy: I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals.
Ellroy: As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.
Ellroy said the book The Badge written by Jack Webb and published in 1958 encouraged him to begin writing crime fiction.
Ellroy currently resides in the Kansas City area with his wife.
Ellroy spent several years as a homeless vagrant during ... (more James Ellroy trivia)
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