Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
With 'The Big Lebowski,' we were really consciously thinking about doing a Raymond Chandler story, as much as it's about L.A. — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London. — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I not only read Raymond Chandler but read all the crime fiction classics. I was hooked. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I read a lot of H.P. Lovecraft, so I wrote like H.P. Lovecraft. And in my 20s, I read… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I thought about a line from Raymond Chandler in The Long Goodbye that I always remembered—and it somehow seemed to fit both… — R. G. Belsky Copy Share Image
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites out of that were James M. Cain,… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Gritty and witty, The Chicago Way is done the classic Raymond Chandler Way. Harvey's taut plot, snappy prose, and memorable characters make… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
What brought me to the table was Raymond Chandler and, to a lesser degree, Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett. I was basically… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
My literary heroes all wrote about L.A.: Joseph Wambaugh, Ross Macdonald, and Raymond Chandler were the three writers that made me want… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I was reading Raymond Chandler very much with the feminist eye. In six of his seven novels, it's the woman who presents… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Late summer is perfect for classic mysteries - think of Raymond Chandler's hot Santa Anas and Agatha Christie's Mediterranean resorts - while… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“From "Raymond Chandler Speaking" On his wife, after her death- "For 30 years, 10 months and four days, she was the light… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Perhaps this is the purpose of detective investigations, real and fictional -- to transform sensation, horror and grief into a puzzle, and… — Kate Summerscale Copy Share Image
I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its… — Avi Copy Share Image
“His expression I remember from the first time I met him. Open, direct. But no longer anonymous. I know certain telling details… — Judi Hendricks Copy Share Image
“Best putdown of a copy editor ever award goes to Raymond Chandler, who, in a 1947 letter to the editor of the… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“If there's another writer, like Ross McDonald or Raymond Chandler, and all they're writing are mysteries, they won't be accepted," he said.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“It’s like that, isn’t it? Just as Raymond Chandler says, ‘The first kiss is dynamite, the second is routine and then you… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the… — George V. Higgins Copy Share Image
“Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
If Raymond Chandler came from the South, his name would be Ace Atkins. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
I like to think I'm writing in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, although I don't ape his style. — William Lashner Copy Share Image
“Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. Raymond Chandler,” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You might learn as much about how to write by reading Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler, Saul Bellow, Paul Muldoon or… — David Denby Copy Share Image
I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years,… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
There are authors like David Foster Wallace or Raymond Chandler - with voice-based authors I might end up a completist, because what… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
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