Raymond Chandler Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humour

• 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

  Topics in Death

  Tags in People

• To say goodbye is to die a little.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Life

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fiction, Write, Writer, Everything, Need, Just, Little, Desire, Writing

• A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Writing
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  The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Extraordinary, Ordinary
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  Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Challenging, Expression, Human
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  A really good detective never gets married.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Wedding

  Tags in Good, Really, Married

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hollywood, Better, Book

• Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Critical, Thinking, Ideas, Destroy

• Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl’s clothes off.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Intimate, Like, Magic

• The more you reason the less you create.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reason, Create

• Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Ability, Attitude

  Tags in Motivation

• At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Least, Seem, Solution, Mystery

• He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Angel, Food, Looked

• I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won’t let himself get snotty about it.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Least, Think, Principle

• Woe, woe, woe… in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Already, Dead, Little

• An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Except, Poetry, Literature

• Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Buck, Just

• When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hand, Door, Man

Raymond Chandler (63)

Birth:	23rd July, 1888
Death:	26th March, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Screenwriter

About

Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at age forty-four, Raymond Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Depression.

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