I Don't Feel In Any Way Obligated

I'm Not Interested In Popular Culture. I Hate Quentin Tarantino. I Rarely Go To Movies. I Hate Rock 'n' Roll. I Work. I Think. I Listen To Classical Music. I Brood. I Like Sports Cars.

[raymond] Chandler, I Reread Him, And There's A Lot Of Bad Writing There. I Don't Think He Knew Much About People.

I Don't Have Children. I Serve The World And I Serve God By Living As Deep Within My Work As I Can, Reveling In The Language Of Other Times And Putting It Forth For The World.

If I Wanted To Make Money I Would Have Written Another Novel.

Anything Less Than Total Candor Was Bullshit. I Owed That To My Readers, I Owed That To Myself, And I Owed That Most Specifically To My Mother. I've Had Some Thrilling Moments In My 18-year Literary Career To This Point, And Nothing Comes Close To Giving Geneva Hilliker Ellroy, The Farm Girl From Tunnel City, Wisconsin, To The World.