(In) most cop shows, every cop in the squad speaks exactly the same and the same kind of short clipped film noir-ish… — Rainn Wilson 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
This is what noir is, what it can be when it stops playing nice--blunt force drama stripped down to the bone, then… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
So I grew up watching film noir, you know the classic stuff. William Holden, Richard Widmark, Robert Mitchum, all those. — Tony Todd Copy Share Image
“Susan had decided to sit by the pool at the hotel with a copy of a book by Alice Miller called The… — 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
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
“I NEVER SAW Susan without feeling a small but discernible thrill. The thrill was mixed with a feeling of gratitude that she… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“He was wearing a gleaming cream-coloured linen suit, and a Panama hat. The weirdest thing about this was that he was not… — Alexis Hall Copy Share Image
I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
“You wanted me to insist. You wanted me to win the argument.” “Wanted is too simple,” Susan said. She had shifted her… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing Sin City.… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
“Sandy’s face was very close to mine in the crowded room. She had a wide mouth and a lot of teeth. She… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
I so love the smell of hatred and revenge. It’s the headiest of concoctions. (Noir) I personally feel that way toward blood.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“there's a part in the essay that kind of does this academic "Let's unpack the idea of Lynchian and what Lynchian means… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Since when do you and I talk about the world,” she said. “The world is what it is.” “Yeah, I know.” “Not… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Dastardly devious, cleverly conceived, and just a whole lot of fun to read, DEATH PERCEPTION is Lee Allen Howard on fire and… — Michael Arnzen Copy Share Image
It's tucked away in a quiet corner, shadowed and obscured, no part of the Nightside's usual bright gaudy neon noir. It doesn't… — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
“I ripped all her clothes off. She twisted and turned, slow, so they would slip out from under her. Then she closed… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
“Later, early Christmas morning, I was still awake, and Susan was asleep, on her back, with her mouth open slightly. I looked… — Robert B. Parker 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
“For my money, noir boils down to bleak humanism – or, to put it more plainly: shit options, bad decisions, and dire… — Chris F. Holm 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
“Maybe they were all either pimps or whores. Maybe it was life’s classifying principle, maybe I had seen the eternal Footman hold… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It’s people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“I called him up from a phone booth. The voice that answered was fat. It wheezed softly, like the voice of a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“You guys look like you shipped back here in a crate,” Quirk said. “Clothes are fresh from the dryer,” I said. “Just… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“He looked as if he'd got a lot of pleasure out of going ten rounds with your grandmother and making sure she… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“She wore a loose bathrobe that covered up a body that would have won first prize in a beauty contest for cement… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Jody Houser, who writes Mother Panic, has this noir-ish superhero style. She's very adaptable. — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
“The only thing he likes better than a nice juicy homicide is a sirloin steak smothered with onions.” — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“The clouds were still bunched up in the sky like a gang on a street corner, and it looked to me like… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms.” — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“I never knew her in life. She exists for me through others, in evidence of the ways her death drove them” — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
