Quotes by : James M. Cain

I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.

I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.

Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.

I ripped all her clothes off. She twisted and turned, slow, so they would slip out from under her. Then....

I knew then what I had done. I had killed a man. I had killed a man to get a woman. I had put myself....

That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.

If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either

You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on then you can write a....

...if he can write a book at all, a writer cannot do it by peeping over his shoulder at somebody else,....