“There was a time when actors went in at the back door. Most of them still should.” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“The first time we met I told you I was a detective. Get it through your lovely head. I work at it,… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“You can live a long time in Hollywood and never see the part they use in pictures...” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Time passed again. I don't know how long. I had no watch. They don't make that kind of time in watches anyway.” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“I lit one of Mr. Talbot's cigarettes and hoped that Mr. and Mrs. Talbot, wherever they were, were having a much better… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“There was nothing to it. The Super Chief was on time, as it almost always is, and the subject was as easy… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“I looked at my watch. Nine fifty-four. Time to go home and get your slippers on and play over a game of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Mr Cobb was my escort. Such a nice escort, Mr Cobb. So attentive. You should see him sober. I should see him… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“I didn't mind what she called me, what anybody called me. But this was the room I had to live in. It… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Until you guys own your own souls you don't own mine. Until you guys can be trusted every time and always, in… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of [The Glass Key]… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“He [James Cain] is every kind of writer I detest...a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“I had been stalking the bluebottle fly for five minutes, waiting for him to sit down. He didn't want to sit down. He just… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“A three-piece Mexican band was making the kind of music a Mexican band always makes. Whatever they play, it all sounds the same. They… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“The book was not new. Dates were stamped on the front endpaper, in and out dates. A rent book. A lending library of elaborate… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“The homicide skipper that year was a Captain Gregorius, a type of copper that is getting rarer but by no means extinct, the kind… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
