Raymond Chandler Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

  Raymond Chandler

  Reading, Character, Guy

  Raymond Chandler (1987). “Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler”, Delta

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

  Raymond Chandler

  Book, Reading, Design

• I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living.

  Raymond Chandler

  Art, Reading, Men

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Simple Art of Murder”, p.17, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

• The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading.

  Raymond Chandler

  Couple, Book, Reading

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.69, Grove Press

• The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.

  Raymond Chandler

  Reading, Society, Literature

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.65, Grove Press

• All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

  Raymond Chandler

  Reading, Entertainment, Pleasure

• At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

  Raymond Chandler

  Book, Reading, Writing

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