Books Quote by Raymond Chandler Download Open image ““In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.”” — Raymond Chandler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Novels Writing
“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The man with the most guns survives the zombie apocalypse, but the man with the most books, locks the door and forgets it ever… — Justin Alcala Copy Share Image
“The first rule of a gunfight was to bring a gun. The second was to bring a bunch of friends with guns,” — Marc Cameron Copy Share Image
“Let whoever opens a door make certain there are no enemies hiding behind it.” — Miriam Minger Copy Share Image
“Think of these books as doors. Open them and let their ideas stir your mind. Study them and they become weapons.” — Anna K. Lane Copy Share Image
“If you want to keep the bad guys in check, make sure the good guys are armed.” — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
“Always check the peephole before answering the door. You never know who's on the other side. Translation: serial killers knock before attacking.” — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
“By the middle of the novel I decided that what two people don't say to each other forges a stronger bond than honest.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Men are Like Guns They Shoot someone and broke them into pieces inside.” — Loise Morales Copy Share Image
“trying to outrun the novelist’s most insidious enemy, which is doubt.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“he who doesn’t come in by the door, but climbs up some other way, that person is a thief and a robber’?” — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
“Oh the wonders of being married. Put a gun in one hand and a woman in the other, I'm never sure who's going to… — Michael W. Grimard Copy Share Image
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of [The Glass Key]… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“He [James Cain] is every kind of writer I detest...a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“I had been stalking the bluebottle fly for five minutes, waiting for him to sit down. He didn't want to sit down. He just… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“A three-piece Mexican band was making the kind of music a Mexican band always makes. Whatever they play, it all sounds the same. They… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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