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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
Let us never accept the point of view that mysteries are written by hacks. The poorest of us shed our blood over every chapter. The best of us start from scratch with every new book (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn’t need a gun, you’d better take one along that worked (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won’t let himself get snotty about it (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
The law isn’t justice. It’s a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
The moment a man begins to talk about technique that’s proof that he is fresh out of ideas (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of mind that can produce the artistic job of writing (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
I’ve found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be passe before it gets into print (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money (Raymond Chandler Quotes)
There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren’t as good as others (Raymond Chandler Quotes)