71 Quotations by Raymond Chandler
- 1. 'Common sense is the guy that tells you that you ought to have your brakes relined last week before ...

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

- 3. A good title is the title of a successful book.

- 4. A really good detective never gets married.

- 5. Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After t ...

- 6. An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of ...

- 7. Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I c ...

- 8. At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must se ...

- 9. California, the department store state.

- 10. Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

- 11. Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you ought to have had your br ...

- 12. Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.. ...

- 13. Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need ...

- 14. From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made u ...

- 15. Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writ ...

- 16. He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

- 17. He looked as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

- 18. However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

- 19. I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.

- 20. I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that wor ...

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