I really got into film noir was when I was supposed to play Orson Welles in a movie. — Jacob Elordi Copy Share Image
“I’m sleeping with a Harvard grad,” I said. “The Emory of the North,” Becker said.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“You and Galileo,” I said. “Didn’t he throw his balls off the leaning tower?” Quirk Said.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
'100 Bullets' is such a post-modern noir; there are certain rules you gotta follow. — Brian Azzarello 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
“There were three of them in the room now, where only two had first come in. Death was in the room with… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“You’re a full portion of what I don’t like,’ she said. ‘Get out of my way.’ I didn’t move. She didn’t move.… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“The lady in the liquor store sold me a fifth of whiskey and the landlord’s name without taking her eyes off the… — Andrew Cotto Copy Share Image
“That crap about doing something with your life are luxury problems. People like us have to play by a different rules.” #ShadowofSadd… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
“Sam Spade is as gray as the economic skies over America and moves through the story as cool and slick as a… — Stephen Sullivan Copy Share Image
I pity those born of the lighter side. They have no understanding of how seductive cruelty is. The music made out of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Susan told me on the way out,” Hawk said, “how you been spreading your charm around town and now they ready to… — Robert B. Parker 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
“His fear-inflamed mind sent the control-signal to his finger-joint to fold back. The trigger sliced back. The blast seemed to lift the… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“It was 10:45. Across the continent Susan would be putting on her makeup now, and spraying some perfume on herself and making… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
I am grateful for what I call well-spent moments: Making a tuna fish sandwich with the works. Taking at least a half… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
“Like too many men, Trahearne and I didn't know how to deal with a woman like [the girl], caught as we were… — James Crumley Copy Share Image
I'm into clothes, but in a way that's related to wanting to walk into a film noir movie. You know, I love… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“But suspense presupposes uncertainty. No matter how nightmarish the situation, real suspense is impossible when we know in advance that the protagonist… — Francis M. Nevins Copy Share Image
“One of the two owners, the man who had been sitting in the front room, was stretched out in there asleep, stockinged-toes… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“I put my arms around her and closed my eyes and put my cheek against the top of her head and stood… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“In Woolrich's crime fiction there is a gradual development from pulp to noir. The earlier a story, the more likely it stresses… — Francis M. Nevins Copy Share Image
“The rain beat against the windows and against the tin roof of the hotel. It came down in hissing roars, then in… — Elliott Chaze Copy Share Image
“The women looked naked, in a way that women never do in skin magazines. These women were real, with the fine roughening… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Nobody lives forever, nobody stays young long enough. My past seemed like so much excess baggage, my future a series of long… — James Crumley Copy Share Image
“Shouldering the duffel bag with the Marine Corps bulldog, Old Man knocked Jan's photo off the bed table. He turned to stone… — Ed Lynskey Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies. — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t doing any work that day, just catching up on my foot-dangling.” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“My free hand reached for something to hold on to, and closed on liquid nothing.” — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
“Candy nodded absently. “Okay,” she said. “What shall I wear?” “A gun,” I said.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
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