Chandler Wrote Quotes

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

— Stephen King

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

— James Ellroy

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

— Barry N. Malzberg

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

— Anonymous

“Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.”

— Ross MacDonald