Quote

If you liked a book, don't meet the author

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
Author
Liked
Meet
Literature
Book

More quotes by Raymond Chandler

Image
The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
Raymond Chandler
Image
The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
Raymond Chandler
Image
There are no vital and significant forms of art there is only art, and precious little of that.
Raymond Chandler
Image
He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
Raymond Chandler
Image
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
Image
The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
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
I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
Raymond Chandler
Image
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
Image
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
Image
However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
Raymond Chandler
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
Raymond Chandler
Image
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
Image
In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
Raymond Chandler
Image
She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.
Raymond Chandler
Image
The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
Raymond Chandler
Image
There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
Raymond Chandler
Image
Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.
Raymond Chandler