Author: James Ellroy

Cites

• Bible (1)
  • IN: Perfidia (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Envy thou not the oppressor, And choose none of his ways.
    FROM: Proverbs 3:31, (-165), Bible, NULL
• W. H. Auden (1)
  • IN: Because the night (1984) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I must take charge of the liquid fire, and storm the cities of human desire -
    FROM: Dance of Death, (1933), Play, England/US
• Thomas Lux (1)
  • IN: Suicide Hill (1986) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You're alone and you know a few things. The stars are pinholes; slits in the hangman's mask Them, rats, snakes; the chased and chasers
    FROM: Solo Native, (1979), Poem, US
• A. E. Housman (1)
  • IN: Blood's a Rover (2009) Political Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Clay lies still, but blood’s a rover; Breath’s a ware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey’s over There’ll be time enough to sleep.
    FROM: A Shropsire Lad, IV, (1896), Poem, UK
• Steve Erickson (1)
  • IN: L.A. Confidential (1990) Crime Fiction, Noir fiction, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A glory that costs everything and means nothing
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Anne Sexton (1)
  • IN: Black Dahlia (1987) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Now I fold you down, my drunkard, my navigator, My first lost keeper, to love and look at later.
    FROM: All My Pretty Ones, (1962), Poem, US

Cited by

• Denise Hamilton (1)
  • IN: Los Angeles Noir (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: L.A. is epidemically everywhere and discernible only in glimpses
    FROM: James Ellroy Comes Home, (2006), Article, US
• Ian Rankin (1)
  • IN: Black and Blue (1997) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If you have the Stones... to say I can rewrite history to my own specifications, you can get away with it.
    FROM: (Capitalisation the author’s own), (None), NULL, US
• Craig McDonald (1)
  • IN: Head Games (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Rakish in his eye patch. Pundit when sane... A reminder: men were men then.
    FROM: White Jazz, (1992), Novel, US