Raymond-chandler Quotes

“But sometimes when you are getting nowhere, you have to give the wasps' nest a wallop”

— Benjamin Black

“I don't greatly care for passes this early in the morning.”

— Raymond Chandler

“Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a…

— Raymond Chandler

“I feel sorry for novelists when they have to mention women's eyes: there's so little choice, and whatever colouring is decided upon…

— Julian Barnes

“The trouble with cops is not that they're dumb or crooked or tough, but that they think just being a cop gives…

— Raymond Chandler

“The charged atmosphere made every little thing stand out as a performance, a movement distinct and vastly important. It was one of…

— Raymond Chandler "The Long Goodbye

Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and…

— Raymond Chandler

“Big production, no story, as they say around the movie lots. I guess Sylvia is happy enough, though not necessarily with me.…

— Raymond Chandler "The Long Goodbye

“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