Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.
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
Test
Tests
Rules
Writer
Whether
Read
Writing
Years
Dated
More quotes by Raymond Chandler
A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.
Raymond Chandler
You can't have everything, even in California
Raymond Chandler
Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself.
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
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
I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. But don't waste your time trying to cross-examine me.
Raymond Chandler
The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.
Raymond Chandler
They write them long because they can't write them short.
Raymond Chandler
The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
Raymond Chandler
There are no vital and significant forms of art there is only art, and precious little of that.
Raymond Chandler
Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had
Raymond Chandler
I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.
Raymond Chandler
A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
Raymond Chandler
There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.
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
When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
Raymond Chandler
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
There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.
Raymond Chandler
The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
Raymond Chandler
