Quotes by Chandler, Raymond

A really good detective never gets married. >>

Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells >>

So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if t >>

Quotations about Editing and Editors

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. >>

Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of c >>

Words and sentences are subject to revision; paragraphs and whole comp >>

Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.

Chandler, Raymond