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Book Quotes by Raymond Chandler
- At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
- If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not…
- The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
- That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his praise comes to…
- If you liked a book, don't meet the author
- When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style,…
- The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get published. The average…
- The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look…
- When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.
- As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp…
- A good title is the title of a successful book.
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