All James M. Cain Quotes
- A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery. But… Chinese
- Yes, I have actually mined coal, and distilled liquor, as well as seen a girl in a pink dress, and seen her take it off.… Chief
- I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. Any
- When it’s too good, you do it over again. Too good is too easy. If it’s too easy you have to worry. If you’re not… All
- New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages. Cities
- If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories. Business
- Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational. All
- A guitar has moonlight in it. Guitar
- I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to… Acquired
- O.K." "Gee I'm glad." "Me too. I'm so sick of hot dogs and beer and apple pie with cheese on the side I could heave… Act
- They threw me off the haytruck about noon. Funny
- I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought. Comes True
- Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate. Any
- You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel. Catch
- Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny. Car
- If you have to do it, you can do it. Funny
- She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and… Given
- That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate. All
- If your writing doesn`t keep you up at night, it won`t keep anyone else up either". Anyone
- The hand that holds the money cracks the whip. Cracks
- I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman. Funny
- I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake Inspirational
- I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept. Comes True