Book Quotes by Raymond Chandler

If you liked a book, don't meet the author

— Raymond Chandler

You can't tell a doper well under control from a vegetarian book-keeper.

— Raymond Chandler

They write them long because they can't write them short.

— Raymond Chandler

A good title is the title of a successful book.

— Raymond Chandler

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.

— Raymond Chandler

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

— Raymond Chandler

As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public…

— Raymond Chandler

The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant…

— Raymond Chandler

Let us never accept the point of view that mysteries are written by hacks. The poorest of us shed our blood over…

— Raymond Chandler

The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get…

— Raymond Chandler

“The book was not new. Dates were stamped on the front endpaper, in and out dates. A rent book. A lending library…

— Raymond Chandler

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a…

— Raymond Chandler