Raymond Chandler
10 quotations
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.
He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
A really good detective never gets married.
The more you reason the less you create.
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
A good title is the title of a successful book.
The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.