Ellroy the modest

[Ya Sam]

"Do you think of yourself as a novelist or as a crime writer?

I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime writer who ever 
lived. I am to the crime novel in specific what Tolstoy is to the Russian 
novel and what Beethoven is to music."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/05/magazine/05wwln_q4.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

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