“The lady in the liquor store sold me a fifth of whiskey and the landlord’s name without taking her eyes off the… — Andrew Cotto Copy Share Image
“Sam Spade is as gray as the economic skies over America and moves through the story as cool and slick as a… — Stephen Sullivan Copy Share Image
“He looked as if he'd got a lot of pleasure out of going ten rounds with your grandmother and making sure she… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms.” — Jim Thompson 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
“My free hand reached for something to hold on to, and closed on liquid nothing.” — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
“Candy nodded absently. “Okay,” she said. “What shall I wear?” “A gun,” I said.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“She was a tall, seedy, sad-eyed blonde who had once been a policewoman and had lost her job when she married a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing Sin City.… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
I'm into clothes, but in a way that's related to wanting to walk into a film noir movie. You know, I love… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“It was 10:45. Across the continent Susan would be putting on her makeup now, and spraying some perfume on herself and making… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It’s people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“I called him up from a phone booth. The voice that answered was fat. It wheezed softly, like the voice of a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Banks watched the sun creep over the forest of oak trees and a crack of light broke through the night and grew… — Matthew McBride Copy Share Image
“A second red-orange spearhead leaps straight at O'Shaughnessy. The whole world seems to stand still. Then the gun behind it crashes, and… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“Like too many men, Trahearne and I didn't know how to deal with a woman like [the girl], caught as we were… — James Crumley Copy Share Image
“Since when do you and I talk about the world,” she said. “The world is what it is.” “Yeah, I know.” “Not… — Robert B. Parker 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
It's tucked away in a quiet corner, shadowed and obscured, no part of the Nightside's usual bright gaudy neon noir. It doesn't… — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
“Susan said. “Kindness is not dangerous. You have found a way to work and live which allows you to integrate the violence… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Kraop was the sound that I heard. Heard it twice--kraop, kraop--one time each for my two fingers that got broke. I heard… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Are you always this random? (Jericho) Mostly. It really irritates Noir. Which is just an added bonus for me. At least so… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid. ("New York… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“There’s a contradiction in your thinking,” I said. “If I took your dirty money, you wouldn’t be able to trust my honesty.” — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
I can’t believe I was ever stupid enough to trust Noir. Come to the dark side. We have cookies. (Zeth) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies. — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
“The ways of the Lord,” I said, “are often dark, but never pleasant.” “Adler?” “Theodor Reik, I think.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
'100 Bullets' is such a post-modern noir; there are certain rules you gotta follow. — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of action movies. I don't watch many action movies, I don't have a lot of references except for… — Olivier Megaton Copy Share Image
“Fine by me, Jack. I just have to plug in the machine. The City will have to change its name to Sunny… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
“He told himself she wasn’t really such a bad person, she was just a pest, she was sticky, there was something misplaced… — David Goodis Copy Share Image
I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“It was a bright day, but cold, and the whores had emerged, working the Combat Zone, looking cold and bizarre in their… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
I was influenced by American movies of the '60s and '70s, especially Don Siegel's 'Dirty Harry' and the films of Sam Peckinpah.… — Shinichiro Watanabe Copy Share Image
'SNL' came out in the '70s. It's a different zeitgeist. It's hard to re-create it, just as it would be hard to… — Richard Belzer Copy Share Image
“One must have a mind of winter, I thought, to behold the nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“From Chapter 1: The main rub was the lack of RnR and I burned out. Three years and three stripes later, I… — Ed Lynskey Copy Share Image
There is something missing in a lot of digital filmmaking, something I call "poetic reality." That's something you see played out in… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on… — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
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