Good thing Quote by William Gibson

We're a culture that's obsessed with people who make and who squander ridiculous amounts of wealth, which seemed an obsession well worth interrogating in…

— Matthew Specktor

Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending in mind…

— Tom Robbins

“If you don't care about the main character in a novel, then you probably won't care about the story either.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

“His expression I remember from the first time I met him. Open, direct. But no longer anonymous. I know certain telling details now. Like…

— Judi Hendricks

I was reading Raymond Chandler very much with the feminist eye. In six of his seven novels, it's the woman who presents herself in…

— Sara Paretsky

With 'The Big Lebowski,' we were really consciously thinking about doing a Raymond Chandler story, as much as it's about L.A.

— Ethan Coen

Gritty and witty, The Chicago Way is done the classic Raymond Chandler Way. Harvey's taut plot, snappy prose, and memorable characters make this debut…

— Kathy Reichs

Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.

— Steve Toltz

[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people.

— James Ellroy

I not only read Raymond Chandler but read all the crime fiction classics. I was hooked.

— Michael Connelly

If Raymond Chandler came from the South, his name would be Ace Atkins.

— Kinky Friedman

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.

— Connie Willis