James Ellroy Crime Quotations

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

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

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

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.

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.