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James Ellroy

"I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective."

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"I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective."

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"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."
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"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."
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"I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman."
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"I'm clenched down, I'm locked in on it, which is my general approach to life."
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"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."
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