Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
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
Looks
Way
Mahal
Smelled
Moonlight
More quotes by Raymond Chandler
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
Raymond Chandler
The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.
Raymond Chandler
The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
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
He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
Raymond Chandler
It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
Raymond Chandler
The streets were dark with something more then night.
Raymond Chandler
A good title is the title of a successful book.
Raymond Chandler
The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.
Raymond Chandler
I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.
Raymond Chandler
A really good detective never gets married.
Raymond Chandler
There are two kinds of truth The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.
Raymond Chandler
Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.
Raymond Chandler
A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
Raymond Chandler
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
Raymond Chandler
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
Raymond Chandler
A good story cannot be devised it has to be distilled.
Raymond Chandler
In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
Raymond Chandler
I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.
Raymond Chandler
Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
Raymond Chandler