A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.
Raymond ChandlerTag: imagination hyperbole
There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.
Raymond ChandlerTag: art
All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.
Raymond ChandlerTag: fiction-writing
All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its release has become a functional necessity.
Raymond ChandlerI needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.
Raymond ChandlerJames Cain – faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naïf, 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. Nothing hard and clean and cold and ventilated. A brothel with a smell of cheap scent in the front parlor and a bucket of slops at the back door. Do I, for God’s sake, sound like that?
Raymond ChandlerCommon sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up.
Raymond Chandlerhad my books been any worse I would not have been invited to Hollywood and if they had been any better I would not have come.
Raymond ChandlerAnd the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles.
Raymond ChandlerThe most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.
Raymond ChandlerTag: writing
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