Quotes by Chandler, Raymond

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

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

Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs an >>

Quotations about Television

The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like sp >>

Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It >>

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract. >>

So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn't it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy.

Chandler, Raymond