Quotes by Chandler, Raymond

The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating advent >>

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel fo >>

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is >>

Quotations about Language

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are >>

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach the >>

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of wh >>

It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.

Chandler, Raymond