One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
If people could deal with each other honestly, they would not need agents. — 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 dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive. — 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
In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
May I wish for you the knowledge...that marriages do not take place, they are made by hand; that there is always an… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I'm a very smart guy. I haven't a feeling or a scruple in the world. All I have the itch for is… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly the stories about them [hard-boiled detectives] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes,… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always… — 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
![“Undoubtedly the stories about them [hard-boiled detectives] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit a group of people, nor within so narrow a frame of logic. This was inevitable because the demand was for constant action; if you stopped to think you…” quote by Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/415/raymond-chandler-629_action_undoubtedly-the-stories-about-them-hard_1748062.jpg)
