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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

Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Chandler's Popular Quotes

I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.

- Raymond Chandler

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.

- Raymond Chandler

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.

- Raymond Chandler

There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.

- Raymond Chandler

I'm killing time and it's dying hard.

- Raymond Chandler

The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.

- Raymond Chandler

Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had

- Raymond Chandler

I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.

- Raymond Chandler

If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.

- Raymond Chandler
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