Raymond Chandler

Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#humour #death

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 of the tricks and has nothing to say. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#art

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#imagination #imagination

As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#dating

I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#simile

I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#humor #manners #philip-marlowe #put-downs #raymond-chandler

I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#crime #marlowe #noir #funny

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

#science #truth #art

It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#humour #metaphor #simile #simile

I certainly admire people who do things. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#certainly #i #people #things #who