Quotes by Chandler, Raymond

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-gl >>

Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried >>

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude tha >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, >>

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and pas >>

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there >>

There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make something important which we all know will be gone forever in a few years, the miasma of failure which is to me almost as offensive as the cheap gaudiness of popular success.

Chandler, Raymond