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Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself.

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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
Write
Else
Two
Anything
Writing
Rules
Rest
Simple
Comes

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He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
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The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
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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.
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I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.
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California, the department store state.
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The streets were dark with something more then night.
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They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.
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You're broke, eh? I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.
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