The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Until you guys own your own souls you don't own mine. Until you guys can be trusted every time and always, in… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix,… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Above all never forget that a marriage is in one way very much like a newspaper. It has to be made fresh… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
There's always something to do if you don't have to work or consider the cost. It's no real fun but the rich… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes,… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of [The Glass Key]… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“He [James Cain] is every kind of writer I detest...a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“I had been stalking the bluebottle fly for five minutes, waiting for him to sit down. He didn't want to sit down. He just… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“A three-piece Mexican band was making the kind of music a Mexican band always makes. Whatever they play, it all sounds the same. They… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
