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Books

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

- Raymond Chandler

Quote of the Day

I boxed 15 years in a club.

- Uwe Boll

Other quotes by Raymond Chandler

Artist Nothing Man

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

- Raymond Chandler

Night

The streets were dark with something more than night.

- Raymond Chandler

Age

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

- Raymond Chandler

Motivation

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

- Raymond Chandler

Thoughts Writing Sense Man

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.

- Raymond Chandler

Reading

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

- Raymond Chandler

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Books Job

I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.

- Kate DiCamillo

Books

I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats.

- Jonathan Franzen

Books

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

- Stanislaw Lec

Books Mind

I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

- Oscar Levant

Books

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Humanity Books

Books are humanity in print.

- Barbara Tuchman