American - Writer | July 23, 1888 - March 26, 1959
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
Raymond Chandler
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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.
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If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
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A really good detective never gets married.
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A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
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The more you reason the less you create.
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I certainly admire people who do things.
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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.
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The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.
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