"I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this."

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James Ellroy

#Character Quotes #Plot Quotes #Notes Quotes

“We made love. How pedestrian the words look-trite, worn, practically featureless with use-but how can one better describe that which happens when it happens? That creation? That magic blending? I might say we became figures in a mesmerized dance before the rocking talisman of the moon, starting slow, so slow... a pair of feathers drifting through clear liquid substance of sky... gradually accelerating, faster and faster and finally into photon existence of pure light... as my whole straining body burst like fluid electricity into hers.”
“The reason I was able to give up smoking was because of the computer. You couldn't lean a cigarette on a computer, like you could on a typewriter. So it just made it that much more difficult to smoke. So I quit.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Some people never have anything except ideals.”
“I didn't lie; nobody calls me a liar, I may have increased my age.”

Source : "Last surviving U.S. World War I vet honored by president" by Paul Courson, edition.cnn.com. March 8, 2008.
“We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.”

Source : "A New Theory of the Universe: Biocentrism builds on quantum physics by putting life into the equation". theamericanscholar.org. March 1, 2007.
“If they don't think, people act senselessly.”
“In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity.”

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