Quotes by : Raymond Chandler

Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form....

A good title is the title of a successful book.

You're broke, eh?"I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer....

His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned....

There are two kinds of truth The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist....

It is not a fragrant world.

It's like this with us baby. We're coppers and everybody hates our guts....nothing we do is right, not....

He explained civilization to me. I mean how it looks to him. He's going to let it go on a little while....