James Ellroy on writing

[girlwithjournal]

“I wanted to be Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Balzac: all these guys I, quite frankly, have never really read.”

--As quoted in James Ellroy: Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction

::is way too amused::

Comments

[allegraslade]

I love the Demon Dog. He's such a riot.

[dettiot]

[grin] I suppose he'll have to settle for being Ellroy and being read by lots and lots of people.

I just re-read L.A. Confidential a few weeks ago, one of many re-reads, but was still blown away by the plot, the characters, and the way the tension never seemed to let up.