Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. Raymond Chandler Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. Raymond Chandler Read Quote
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 Read Quote
She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me. Raymond Chandler Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I do a great deal of research – particularly in the apartments of tall blondes. Raymond Chandler Read Quote
The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers. Raymond Chandler Read Quote
