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
“Susan had decided to sit by the pool at the hotel with a copy of a book by Alice Miller called The… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Susan told me on the way out,” Hawk said, “how you been spreading your charm around town and now they ready to… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“You’re a full portion of what I don’t like,’ she said. ‘Get out of my way.’ I didn’t move. She didn’t move.… — Raymond Chandler 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
“That crap about doing something with your life are luxury problems. People like us have to play by a different rules.” #ShadowofSadd… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
“There were three of them in the room now, where only two had first come in. Death was in the room with… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“Maybe they were all either pimps or whores. Maybe it was life’s classifying principle, maybe I had seen the eternal Footman hold… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sandy’s face was very close to mine in the crowded room. She had a wide mouth and a lot of teeth. She… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Evans made himself their spokesman. "Charlie and Joe," he offered. "Remember us? We brought a friend back with us this time." Girls… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
I am grateful for what I call well-spent moments: Making a tuna fish sandwich with the works. Taking at least a half… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
“His fear-inflamed mind sent the control-signal to his finger-joint to fold back. The trigger sliced back. The blast seemed to lift the… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“IT TOOK a conscious effort for Tallow to keep his hand off his gun as he walked up the apartment building’s stairs.… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
Film noir is not a genre. It is not defined, as are the western and gangster genres, by conventions of setting and… — Paul Schrader 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
“there's a part in the essay that kind of does this academic "Let's unpack the idea of Lynchian and what Lynchian means… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Dastardly devious, cleverly conceived, and just a whole lot of fun to read, DEATH PERCEPTION is Lee Allen Howard on fire and… — Michael Arnzen Copy Share Image
“Later, early Christmas morning, I was still awake, and Susan was asleep, on her back, with her mouth open slightly. I looked… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“I ripped all her clothes off. She twisted and turned, slow, so they would slip out from under her. Then she closed… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
“Shouldering the duffel bag with the Marine Corps bulldog, Old Man knocked Jan's photo off the bed table. He turned to stone… — Ed Lynskey Copy Share Image
“Home? What is home? Home is where a house is that you come back to when the rainy season is about to… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
When I was making these damned pictures, I never knew about film noir. If you had asked me about it then, I… — Samuel Fuller 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
“She wore a loose bathrobe that covered up a body that would have won first prize in a beauty contest for cement… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Jody Houser, who writes Mother Panic, has this noir-ish superhero style. She's very adaptable. — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
“You guys look like you shipped back here in a crate,” Quirk said. “Clothes are fresh from the dryer,” I said. “Just… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“The only thing he likes better than a nice juicy homicide is a sirloin steak smothered with onions.” — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“The clouds were still bunched up in the sky like a gang on a street corner, and it looked to me like… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“I never knew her in life. She exists for me through others, in evidence of the ways her death drove them” — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“There is always a unique atmosphere in the car when you drive through the City with a dead body in the back.” — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting! — Marie Windsor Copy Share Image
You're immediately in a world of noir when you're watching shows like 'The Bridge' or 'The Killing.' — Lesley Sharp Copy Share Image
“The Italians were getting so accustomed to tragedies and disasters that their appetite for sensation was becoming jaded.” — Timothy Holme Copy Share Image
“Somebody should have taken him to a stationary store and pointed out the difference between an envelope and a whore.” — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“So that's the way you scientific detectives work. My god! for a fat, middle-aged, hard-boiled, pig-headed guy, you've got the vaguest way… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
“Do you have a first name, Mr. Spenser'?” Jill said. She had a soft girlish voice with just a hint of huskiness… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“You ever choke a man out with his own shirt?” “What kind of question is that?” “A yes or no one.” — Todd Morr Copy Share Image
“And Quirk’s a captain now,” he said. “Captain Quirk?” The motorcycle cop grinned. “Captain Quirk,” he said.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
