Dashiell Hammett Quotes
- Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it. — James Ellroy
- Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft… — Charles Frazier
- Steve Forman is a brutally funny writer. His no-nonsense, unadorned style begs comparison to Dashiell Hammett, but Hammett's humor at its darkest never hit home… — Loren D. Estleman
- I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing… — Megan Abbott
- Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley. — Raymond Chandler