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
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 Copy Share Image
What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix,… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“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 Image
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
