Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the…

“[Raymond Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered.”

— Anonymous

As a teenager, I read a lot of H.P. Lovecraft, so I wrote like H.P. Lovecraft. And in my 20s, I read a lot…

— Stephen King

“He began as a minor imitator of Fitzgerald, wrote a novel in the late twenties which won a prize, became dissatisfied with his work,…

— Barry N. Malzberg

Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.

— James Ellroy

I don't even know who Michael Chandler is.

— Donald Cerrone

Chandler was how old when he first touched a girl's breasts?

— Rachel Green

I thought I was the last American weirdo then I met Chris Chandler.

— Mojo Nixon

I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.

— Matthew Perry

When I was in college, there were dollar movie nights. I went to see 'The Long Goodbye,' which was based on one of Chandler's…

— Michael Connelly

I love Hammett, never liked Chandler - I'm one of the few.

— Donald E. Westlake

[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people.

— James Ellroy

If Raymond Chandler came from the South, his name would be Ace Atkins.

— Kinky Friedman

I know Michael Chandler. I know his potential. He's very explosive.

— Patricio Freire

“Chandler’s “She was blonde enough to make a bishop kick a hole through a stained-glass window”

— William Safire

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