Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler
Raymond Thornton Chandlerwas a British-American novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime. All but Playback have been...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 July 1888
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.
You can't have everything, even in California
Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it
If you liked a book, don't meet the author
Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.
She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.
Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.
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.
I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.
I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.