Always Quote by Powers Boothe

I'm somewhere between a gumshoe and a journalist. A writer, not a symbol.

— Bill Callahan

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…

— Megan Abbott

“I remembered reading in a hard-boiled detective novel that if you drink in the same place two nights in a row, the bartender and…

— Ryū Murakami

And if we’re talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest…

— Nic Pizzolatto

[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.

— Dorothy Parker

Undoubtedly the stories about them [hard-boiled detectives] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit a group…

— Raymond Chandler

I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes.

— Billy Wilder

'Hard Boiled' is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U.S. It is the one film which is most accepted…

— John Woo

Most hard-boiled people are half-baked.

— Wilson Mizner

CEREMONY OF FLIES hits the road like a nitrous-fueled GTO...and then pulls the ultimate stunt of getting better. What starts as a deceptively simple…

— Lisa Morton

I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to make a…

— John Woo