Quote

Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.

Raymond Chandler

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Days
Feel
Feels
Like
Waffle
Waffles
Smooth
Iron
Playing

More quotes by Raymond Chandler

Image
You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
Raymond Chandler
Image
Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you.
Raymond Chandler
Image
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
Raymond Chandler
Image
Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.
Raymond Chandler
Image
As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.
Raymond Chandler
Image
I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.
Raymond Chandler
Image
Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.
Raymond Chandler
Image
He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
Raymond Chandler
Image
Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
Raymond Chandler
Image
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
Raymond Chandler
Image
In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
Raymond Chandler
Image
The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged.
Raymond Chandler
Image
The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.
Raymond Chandler
Image
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.
Raymond Chandler
Image
They write them long because they can't write them short.
Raymond Chandler
Image
All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
Raymond Chandler
Image
If you liked a book, don't meet the author
Raymond Chandler
Image
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
Image
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
Image
The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.
Raymond Chandler