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Raymond Chandler - From the Appreciation category:
Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love. (Raymond Chandler)
Raymond Chandler - From the Art category:
In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. (Raymond Chandler)
Raymond Chandler - From the Artists category:
The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture. (Raymond Chandler)
Raymond Chandler - From the Attitude category:
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. (Raymond Chandler)
Raymond Chandler - From the Books category:
If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come. (Raymond Chandler)
Raymond Chandler - From the Books category:
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. (Raymond Chandler)
Raymond Chandler - From the Critics category:
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic. (Raymond Chandler)
Raymond Chandler - From the Doubt category:
When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand. (Raymond Chandler)
Raymond Chandler - From the Drunkenness category:
- The Long Goodbye, 1953...
Alcohol is like love: the first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you just take the girl's clothes off. (Raymond Chandler)
Raymond Chandler - From the Immortality category:
Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already. (Raymond Chandler)
Raymond Chandler - From the Limitations category:
-The Long Goodbye, 1953
There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself. (Raymond Chandler)
Raymond Chandler - From the Passion category:
Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered pot holder. (Raymond Chandler)
Raymond Chandler - From the Poetry category:
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. (Raymond Chandler)
Raymond Chandler - From the Research category:
I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes. (Raymond Chandler)
Raymond Chandler - From the Senses category:
It is not a fragrant world. (Raymond Chandler)
Raymond Chandler - From the Technique category:
The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas. (Raymond Chandler)
Raymond Chandler - From the Thinking category:
The more you reason, the less you create. (Raymond Chandler)
Raymond Chandler - From the Truth category:
There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. (Raymond Chandler)
Raymond Chandler - From the Words category:
When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split. (Raymond Chandler)
Raymond Chandler - From the Writing category:
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. (Raymond Chandler)
Raymond Chandler - From the Writing category:
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 the tricks and has nothing to say. (Raymond Chandler)
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