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
There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.
The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.
A really good detective never gets married.
She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.
California, the department store state.
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.
When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
Hollywood is wonderful. Anyone who doesn't like it is either crazy or sober.
You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
The more you reason the less you create.
Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.
There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.