Raymond Chandler Quotes

• Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Intelligence

  Tags in Advertising, Human

• It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Advertising, Pretty, Human

• When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in God

  Tags in Stay

• From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Away, Like, Feet, Something

• The streets were dark with something more than night.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Something

• I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn’t need a gun, you’d better take one along that worked.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Better, Need

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

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Process, Turned, Reading

• She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Smile

  Tags in Feel

• The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Gentleman, Moment

• The moment a man begins to talk about technique that’s proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Proof, Moment

• The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing, Moment

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Meet, Creative, Artist

• She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like

• I certainly admire people who do things.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Certainly, Admire, People

• I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in God

  Tags in Guess

• I do a great deal of research – particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Particularly, Great

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Critic, Professional, Writing, Good

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

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writer, World, Best

• It is not a fragrant world.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World

• The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in Little, Effect

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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