“By doing one wrong thing, I thought I could make everything right.” — Scott B. Smith Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t doing any work that day, just catching up on my foot-dangling.” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“She killed to get the dream she wanted, then found out it didn't want her back.” — Robyn Hugo McIntyre Copy Share Image
“I hate the world. Everything comes into it so clean and goes out so dirty. (from COVER CHARGE - currently not listed)” — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“Because I love you,” I said. “Because you are in my life like the music at the edge of silence.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
I'm really a sucker for old, old movies. Like old film noir. I don't know. I also really enjoy independent movies. — Boti Bliss Copy Share Image
Pinot noir is the ultimate wine to have at the table. It's a white wine masquerading as red...[while] chardonnay is a red… — Kevin Zraly Copy Share Image
The noir universe hates do-gooders so it tries to pound them and punish them. — Duane Swierczynski Copy Share Image
I've been thinking of doing a sci-fi thriller or a sci-fi noir, if that's possible. — Kim Ji-woon Copy Share Image
(In) most cop shows, every cop in the squad speaks exactly the same and the same kind of short clipped film noir-ish… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir… — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
I'd love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
“A cat came out of an alley, took a look at all the snow, and went back in. Farther on up the… — David Goodis Copy Share Image
No viticultural region in America has demonstrated as much progress in quality and potential for greatness as... the Santa Barbara region, where… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
“How the hell can you be liberated and accept alimony?” I said. Again the smile, innocent, beautiful, glorious, and satanic. “Exploit the… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“I decided to coin the term 'cosy crime noir' for Brighton Belle. That is 'cosy crime' for today's sensibilities because there is… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“And I’ve met a very wonderful woman,” I said. “They’re all wonderful,” Haller said. “Well, many of them,” I said. “I love… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“The struggle doesn't last long; it's too unequal. Their momentary surprise overcome, they close in on him. The well-directed slice of a… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“You walked a mile in the rain to drink hot water?” “To be with you,” she said. “You’re better than pie.” And… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Say it turns out to be the gun, and it’s going to be major-league coincidence if it doesn’t, you’re going to want… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“The women looked naked, in a way that women never do in skin magazines. These women were real, with the fine roughening… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“I NEVER SAW Susan without feeling a small but discernible thrill. The thrill was mixed with a feeling of gratitude that she… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Yes, to me that's one of the most compelling fears in film noir and the psychological thriller genre - that fear of… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
“I put my arms around her and closed my eyes and put my cheek against the top of her head and stood… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“You wanted me to insist. You wanted me to win the argument.” “Wanted is too simple,” Susan said. She had shifted her… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“In Woolrich's crime fiction there is a gradual development from pulp to noir. The earlier a story, the more likely it stresses… — Francis M. Nevins Copy Share Image
“Just inside the doorway he puts down the bags, motions her to stand by them a minute. He saunters out ahead, carefully… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“Tito snored away on the other bed. Out there, all around them to the last fringes of occupancy, were Toobfreex at play… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“For my money, noir boils down to bleak humanism – or, to put it more plainly: shit options, bad decisions, and dire… — Chris F. Holm Copy Share Image
“He began as a minor imitator of Fitzgerald, wrote a novel in the late twenties which won a prize, became dissatisfied with… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
“This may not be art as art commonly goes; the lack of discipline, of control, would seem to rule it out of… — Francis M. Nevins Jr Copy Share Image
“It was a sort of car that seemed to have a faculty for motion with an absolute lack of any accompanying sound… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
So I grew up watching film noir, you know the classic stuff. William Holden, Richard Widmark, Robert Mitchum, all those. — Tony Todd Copy Share Image
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