“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
“There was nearly an inch of snow accumulated and Washington was rapidly sinking into hysteria.” — Robert B. Parker 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
“When I heard the gunshots, though, I knew - knew beyond the shadow of a doubt - that somewhere in Los Angeles… — Richard Valley Copy Share Image
You use elements of noir, but you don't want it to be too noir-ish. You don't want it to be advertised as… — Danny Boyle 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
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
“He was wearing a gleaming cream-coloured linen suit, and a Panama hat. The weirdest thing about this was that he was not… — Alexis Hall Copy Share Image
That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for… — Lawrence Kasdan Copy Share Image
“Susan said. “You ought to not forget that whoever you killed last year, there were people you could have killed and didn’t.”… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“It's time to end the brain drain and move to brain gain. It's time for a great mind of Nigeria to return… — Deji Olukotun Copy Share Image
“But suspense presupposes uncertainty. No matter how nightmarish the situation, real suspense is impossible when we know in advance that the protagonist… — Francis M. Nevins 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
God made Cabernet Sauvignon, whereas the Devil made Pinot Noir. — Andre Tchelistcheff Copy Share Image
Jody Houser, who writes Mother Panic, has this noir-ish superhero style. She's very adaptable. — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
I envied women with signature hair-dos, signature perfumes, signature sign-offs. Novelists who tell Vogue Magazine: “I can’t live without my Smythson notebook,… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
“...smoke twisting amongst the lights and turning the air a desolate blue, the colour of dead hopes and lost chances.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“All we can do about this nightmare we live in is to create, if we are very lucky, a few islands of… — Francis M. Nevins Copy Share Image
“Whatever you did, and whoever you killed, and however you feel about it, you have to judge all of that in context.… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
This is what noir is, what it can be when it stops playing nice--blunt force drama stripped down to the bone, then… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
CEREMONY OF FLIES hits the road like a nitrous-fueled GTO...and then pulls the ultimate stunt of getting better. What starts as a… — Lisa Morton Copy Share Image
I pity those born of the lighter side. They have no understanding of how seductive cruelty is. The music made out of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon 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
