“The echo of the first shot, like the first sip of whiskey, burning...” — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“She killed to get the dream she wanted, then found out it didn't want her back.” — Robyn Hugo McIntyre Copy Share Image
The noir universe hates do-gooders so it tries to pound them and punish them. — Duane Swierczynski Copy Share Image
Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists. — Adrian McKinty Copy Share Image
I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“The evening stretches out against the sky, I thought. Like a patient etherized upon a table. I grinned to myself. Live fast,… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Because I love you,” I said. “Because you are in my life like the music at the edge of silence.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“I hate the world. Everything comes into it so clean and goes out so dirty. (from COVER CHARGE - currently not listed)” — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
I'm really a sucker for old, old movies. Like old film noir. I don't know. I also really enjoy independent movies. — Boti Bliss Copy Share Image
“Winter was gray and mean upon the city and every night was a package of cold bleak hours, like the hours in… — David Goodis Copy Share Image
“There was nearly an inch of snow accumulated and Washington was rapidly sinking into hysteria.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Pinot noir is the ultimate wine to have at the table. It's a white wine masquerading as red...[while] chardonnay is a red… — Kevin Zraly Copy Share Image
I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana,… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go.… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“His most characteristic detective stories end with the realization that no rational account of events is possible, and his suspense stories tend… — Francis M. Nevins Copy Share Image
“A quick butchers shows up Old Bill three-handed, also a particularly nasty female grass–-and if looks were acid baths the two she… — Derek Raymond Copy Share Image
“You walked a mile in the rain to drink hot water?” “To be with you,” she said. “You’re better than pie.” And… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
I'd love to play a femme fatale in a film noir. I'm thinking of one of those roles that Lauren Bacall or… — Diana Quick Copy Share Image
“She walked a ways down the concourse, and looked back and waved and then turned a corner and was out of sight.… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Running is easy… but doesn’t dull the pain” she whispered with a sigh and touched the spot where her heart was. “I… — Suilyaniz Cintron Copy Share Image
You would kill or enslave everyone? There is so much beauty in the world that they’d destroy. How do you not see… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“The hallmarks of the noir style are fear, guilt and loneliness, breakdown and despair, sexual obsession and social corruption, a sense that… — Francis M. Nevins Copy Share Image
“The struggle doesn't last long; it's too unequal. Their momentary surprise overcome, they close in on him. The well-directed slice of a… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
Women sometimes really love to look at other beautiful women on the screen. But they don't look at a woman the way… — Anna Biller Copy Share Image
“If your life can hang from a chewing gum wrapper it can hang from anything in the book. It can hang from… — Elliott Chaze Copy Share Image
“Say it turns out to be the gun, and it’s going to be major-league coincidence if it doesn’t, you’re going to want… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“And then, with a shock like high-voltage coursing through me, the phone beside me started pealing thinly. I just stood there and… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
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