O.K." "Gee I'm glad." "Me too. I'm so sick of hot dogs and beer and apple pie with cheese on the side I could heave it all in the river." "You'll love it, Frank. We'll get a place up in the mountains, where it's cool, and then, after I get my act ready, we can go all over the world with it. Go as we please, do as we please, and have plenty of money to spend. Have you got a little bit of gypsy in you?" "Gypsy? I had rings in my ears when I was born.
Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational. - James M. Cain
Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.
- James M. Cain
If your writing doesn`t keep you up at night, it won`t keep anyone else up either". - James M. Cain
If your writing doesn`t keep you up at night, it won`t keep anyone else up either".
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to write as the character wou… - James M. Cain
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to write as the character wou…
I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought. - James M. Cain
I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.
You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill. - James M. Cain
You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill.
The hand that holds the money cracks the whip. - James M. Cain
The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.
If you have to do it, you can do it. - James M. Cain
If you have to do it, you can do it.
I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake - James M. Cain
I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake
Time is the only critic. - James M. Cain
Time is the only critic.
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