Quotes by Chandler, Raymond

Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our lif >>

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with t >>

It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang i >>

Quotations about Literature

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous i >>

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason th >>

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its tran >>

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.

Chandler, Raymond