Quotes by Chandler, Raymond

It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americ >>

The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose >>

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let >>

Quotations about Hollywood

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for sta >>

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Holl >>

Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come ba >>

That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his praise comes to him in the form of a salary check. In Hollywood the average writer is not young, not honest, not brave, and a bit overdressed. But he is darn good company, which book writers as a rule are not. He is better than what he writes. Most book writers are not as good.

Chandler, Raymond