Quotes By Raymond Chandler

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.