Quotes by Chandler, Raymond

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

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. >>

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a s >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

Good writing is clear thinking made visible. >>

No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write. >>

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- >>

Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

Chandler, Raymond