“The echo of the first shot, like the first sip of whiskey, burning...” — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists. — Adrian McKinty Copy Share Image
Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary. — Jeff Goldblum Copy Share Image
In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb. — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“The evening stretches out against the sky, I thought. Like a patient etherized upon a table. I grinned to myself. Live fast,… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“There was nearly an inch of snow accumulated and Washington was rapidly sinking into hysteria.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Winter was gray and mean upon the city and every night was a package of cold bleak hours, like the hours in… — David Goodis Copy Share Image
The AW14 collection is inspired by Film Noir. Elements of masculinity and femininity were reflected in the fabric, tailoring, and features. — Emilia Wickstead Copy Share Image
Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in… — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
Anything that has to do with noir and space, I'm gonna love. When you've got a noir-ish, pulpy detective in a science… — Thomas Jane Copy Share Image
Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go.… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“His most characteristic detective stories end with the realization that no rational account of events is possible, and his suspense stories tend… — Francis M. Nevins Copy Share Image
I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana,… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
“She walked a ways down the concourse, and looked back and waved and then turned a corner and was out of sight.… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“A quick butchers shows up Old Bill three-handed, also a particularly nasty female grass–-and if looks were acid baths the two she… — Derek Raymond Copy Share Image
I'd love to play a femme fatale in a film noir. I'm thinking of one of those roles that Lauren Bacall or… — Diana Quick Copy Share Image
With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Running is easy… but doesn’t dull the pain” she whispered with a sigh and touched the spot where her heart was. “I… — Suilyaniz Cintron Copy Share Image
Women sometimes really love to look at other beautiful women on the screen. But they don't look at a woman the way… — Anna Biller Copy Share Image
I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
“If your life can hang from a chewing gum wrapper it can hang from anything in the book. It can hang from… — Elliott Chaze Copy Share Image
You would kill or enslave everyone? There is so much beauty in the world that they’d destroy. How do you not see… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“The hallmarks of the noir style are fear, guilt and loneliness, breakdown and despair, sexual obsession and social corruption, a sense that… — Francis M. Nevins Copy Share Image
“And then, with a shock like high-voltage coursing through me, the phone beside me started pealing thinly. I just stood there and… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“He's prowling back and forth like a lion with distemper now. There's a shiny streak down one side of his face. "I… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“The rain beat against the windows and against the tin roof of the hotel. It came down in hissing roars, then in… — Elliott Chaze Copy Share Image
