“I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
The noir universe hates do-gooders so it tries to pound them and punish them. — Duane Swierczynski Copy Share Image
Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists. — Adrian McKinty Copy Share Image
Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary. — Jeff Goldblum 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
“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
“Normally, I don't take to drinking so early in the morning, but I bend the rules when I get my ass kicked… — C.J. Fella Copy Share Image
“You right,” Hawk said. “Couldn’t happen. Be like J. Edgar Hoover running around in a dress.” “Exactly,” I said. “Impossible.” — Robert B. Parker 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
“Susan laughed. I always loved the sound of her laughter. And to have caused it was worth the west side of heaven.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“His voice was the elaborately casual voice of the tough guy in pictures. Pictures have made them all like that.” — Raymond Chandler 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
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
“You ever f**k Susan here?” she said, her face almost touching mine. “I’m impressed,” I said. “The question is intrusive, annoying, coarse,… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Lots of cops married nurses, Tallow knew. Nurses understood the life: murderous shiftwork, long stretches of boredom, sudden adrenaline spikes, blood everywhere.… — Warren Ellis 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“When a child disappears, the space she’d occupied is immediately filled with dozens of people. And these people—relatives, friends, police officers, reporters… — Dennis Lehane 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
“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
“One of the two owners, the man who had been sitting in the front room, was stretched out in there asleep, stockinged-toes… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“The echo of the first shot, like the first sip of whiskey, burning...” — Richard K. Morgan 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
“You and Galileo,” I said. “Didn’t he throw his balls off the leaning tower?” Quirk Said.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“I’m sleeping with a Harvard grad,” I said. “The Emory of the North,” Becker said.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
