Quote by: Raymond Chandler

The realistic style is easy to abuse: from haste, from lack of awareness, from inability to bridge the chasm that lies between what a writer would like to be able to say and what he actually knows how to say. It is easy to fake; brutality is not strength, flipness is not wit, edge-of-the-chair writing can be as boring as flat writing; dalliance with promiscuous blondes can be very dull stuff when described by goaty young men with no other purpose in mind than to describe dalliance with promiscuous blondes.


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Author Bio


  • NameRaymond Chandler
  • DescriptionNovelist, screenwriter
  • BornJuly 23, 1888
  • DiedMarch 26, 1959
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Novelist; Writer
  • AwardsEdgar Award