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Ross MacDonald Quotes

American - Novelist | January 27, 1965 -

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.

Work Broken Learn Wish Personal Way

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

Ocean Rise Wrong Nothing California

Money costs too much.

Money Too Much Costs Much Too

As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.

Good Women Getting Older Man Trouble

An ugly woman with an ugly gun is a terrible thing.

Woman Ugly Gun Terrible Thing

As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played.

Game Back Room Poker Being Machines

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

Me Trying Back Turn Greatest Myth

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

Heart Hell Human Bottom Human Heart

How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?

Live Money Man Law Help He

I had reached the point when I could not see anything clearly ahead, I needed help, and I got it.

Help Ahead See Clearly Anything Got

I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.

Generosity Out Even Knew How Ran

I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need.

Me Society Problems Write Need Rope

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