Hammett Quotes

9 quotes by 8 authors

• 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 wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and… — Ross Macdonald
• 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
• While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I read… — Paul Auster
• All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James. — Donna Leon
• Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at… — Raymond Chandler

Who Wrote These Hammett Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 9 Hammett Quotes as follows:

• 2 Hammett Quotes by Raymond Chandler
• 1 Hammett Quote by Charles Frazier
• 1 Hammett Quote by Loren D. Estleman
• 1 Hammett Quote by Ross Macdonald
• 1 Hammett Quote by Megan Abbott
• 1 Hammett Quote by Paul Auster
• 1 Hammett Quote by Donna Leon
• 1 Hammett Quote by James Ellroy