Raymond Chandler Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.”

“The more you reason the less you create.”

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

“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.”

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

“The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.”

“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.”

“The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.”

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

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