Raymond Chandler 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
- 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
- I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing. — William Gibson
- I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art. — Michael Connelly
- Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing?… — Lou Reed
- Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice. — Steve Toltz