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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“My free hand reached for something to hold on to, and closed on liquid nothing.” — Ross Macdonald 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
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
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'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies. — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t doing any work that day, just catching up on my foot-dangling.” — Raymond Chandler 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
“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
“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
“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 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
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
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
“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
'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
