Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
Raymond Chandler
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
Hero
Streets
Afraid
Must
Mean
Tarnished
Men
Weathered
Heroism
Neither
More quotes by Raymond Chandler
I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.
Raymond Chandler
It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.
Raymond Chandler
The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
Raymond Chandler
He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.
Raymond Chandler
LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.
Raymond Chandler
Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.
Raymond Chandler
A good title is the title of a successful book.
Raymond Chandler
If you liked a book, don't meet the author
Raymond Chandler
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.
Raymond Chandler
You're broke, eh? I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.
Raymond Chandler
James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix, a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and a board fence and nobody looking. Such people are the offal of literature, not because they write about dirty things, but because they do it in a dirty way.
Raymond Chandler
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
Raymond Chandler
The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
Raymond Chandler
I certainly admire people who do things.
Raymond Chandler
I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.
Raymond Chandler
I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.
Raymond Chandler
The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
Raymond Chandler
The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.
Raymond Chandler
All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
Raymond Chandler
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
Raymond Chandler
