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Raymond Chandler Quotes

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.

Raymond Chandler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 23, 1888 - March 26, 1959

Topics

Art End Desire Say Nothing Need

Gym traumaramas can happen to anyone. One time, I brought a packet of papers to read while jogging on the treadmill. Right when I was in the middle of my run, I dropped them and they flew everywhere! Pages went flying all over the place and got in the way of other people working out.

Jenna Ushkowitz

Time People Flying Gym Place Run

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

Maurice Sendak

Death Parents Thought You Kid Tell

I've been in a recording studio enough times to know that it is not the best place to multitask. Doing a couple of takes of a song and running out to check your email to talk to someone about video production really is not good.

Amanda Palmer

Good Best Song Someone Doing Enough

I hate 'foodie' because it's cute, like pretty much all diminutives associated with eating. 'Veggies,' 'sammies,' 'parm.' I eat food, and I cook it: it's for eating, preferably with friends, and I don't make a fetish out of it.

Steve Albini

Cute Food Hate Eating Friends Eat

Melancholy is no bad thing.

Sting

Bad Melancholy Thing Bad Thing

I wouldn't say all journalism is activism, but I would say most journalism is activism.

Mike Cernovich

Journalism Say Activism Would Most

Amidst all the internal and external babble we experience daily, it's hard to find one's foundation.

Julia Holter

Daily Experience Foundation Find

I want to do an intelligent talk show where you have room to breathe.

Joy Behar

You Want Intelligent Talk Breathe

You can't knock on opportunity's door and not be ready.

Bruno Mars

Opportunity Door You Ready Knock

One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable blue sky, the familiar world returning - I could think of no other way to express my relief than through poetry. I made a decision there and then that it was what I wanted to do. Every time I pulled a wishbone, it was what I asked for.

Alice Oswald

Time Decision Sky Blue Poetry World

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.

William Wycherley

Women Men Honor You Call Avoid

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

William Frederick Book

Man Drive Energy Driven Must His