“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“His most characteristic detective stories end with the realization that no rational account of events is possible, and his suspense stories tend… — Francis M. Nevins Copy Share Image
Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go.… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I'd love to play a femme fatale in a film noir. I'm thinking of one of those roles that Lauren Bacall or… — Diana Quick Copy Share Image
“A quick butchers shows up Old Bill three-handed, also a particularly nasty female grass–-and if looks were acid baths the two she… — Derek Raymond 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
“She walked a ways down the concourse, and looked back and waved and then turned a corner and was out of sight.… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Everyone froze. In real time the whole sequence had probably taken ten seconds. In the slow motion of crisis time it had… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know,… — Brian De Palma 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
CEREMONY OF FLIES hits the road like a nitrous-fueled GTO...and then pulls the ultimate stunt of getting better. What starts as a… — Lisa Morton Copy Share Image
In alchemical treatises, the formula L'Oeuvre au Noir ... designates what is said to be the most difficult phase of the alchemist's… — Marguerite Yourcenar 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“The only thing he likes better than a nice juicy homicide is a sirloin steak smothered with onions.” — Richard Brautigan 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
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'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
“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
“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
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
“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 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
“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
“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
I've been embracing the red lip and just wearing it every day, not just for going out. And I get so many… — Stephanie March Copy Share Image
“It's raining in Washington tonight. Plump, warm summer rain that covers the sidewalks with leopard spots. Downtown, elderly ladies carry their houseplants… — Alan Moore 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
As the tall dark and handsome male star, Carey Grant always stands for male beauty and desirability, whether in a 30s screwball,… — Steven A. Cohen Copy Share Image
