Quotes by Chandler, Raymond

I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that >>

A really good detective never gets married. >>

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket. >>

Quotations about Style

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. >>

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. >>

Happy the society whose deepest divisions are ones of style. >>

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.

Chandler, Raymond