James Ellroy Quotes About Crime

Quotes about: Crime

• Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

  James Ellroy

  Crime, Screws, Knows

• 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 throughout the years.

  James Ellroy

  Mother, Dad, Years

• I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

  James Ellroy

  Thinking, Crime, American History

• I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific what Tolstoy is to the Russian novel and what Beethoven is to music.

  James Ellroy

  Crime Novels, Novelists, Fiction

• The wildest ride in modern crime novel exoticum. A novel so steeped in milieu that it feels as if you've blasted to mars in the grip of a demon who won't let you go. Read this book, savor the language-it's the last-and the most compelling word in thrillers.

  James Ellroy

  Book, Crime Novels, Mars

• Well, the clues are there. They always are. Which is why when crimes are solved decades after the fact, it's obvious that the clues had always been right in front of them. A traffic ticket in Brooklyn is how they got ["Son of Sam" serial killer] David Berkowitz. You've just got to look.

  James Ellroy

  Son, Serial Killer, Looks

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

• When I look at Perfidia, I think, "That's a Pulitzer Prize winner. That's a National Book Award winner." It's not going to get it. It's going to be shelved in crime and it's just the way it is. I've done something that no one else has ever done; I've started out as a mystery writer, a police writer, and a crime writer, and I became something entirely different.

  James Ellroy

  Book, Thinking, Awards

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

• I think I'm out of crime fiction now, and I think the dividing line is American Tabloid.

  James Ellroy

  Thinking, Fiction, Tabloids

  "The Onion talks to crime-fiction kingpin James Ellroy". Interview by John Krewson, www.avclub.com. November 20, 1996.

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