Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.
All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be… - Charles Frazier
All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be…
- Charles Frazier
Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to be more efficient, but I am not. - Charles Frazier
Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to be more efficient, but I am not.
We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it… - Charles Frazier
We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it…
When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time. - Charles Frazier
When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time.
Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate. - Charles Frazier
Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate.
No looking back. Life goes one way only, and whatever opinions you hold about the past having nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness.… - Charles Frazier
No looking back. Life goes one way only, and whatever opinions you hold about the past having nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness.…
Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. Not being bo… - Charles Frazier
Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. Not being bo…
She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation. - Charles Frazier
She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.
Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. - Charles Frazier
Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom.
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