Raymond Chandler Quotes About Style

Quotes about: Style

• As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.

  Raymond Chandler

  Men, Style, Going Out

  "The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words".

• The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Style, Investment

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.75, Univ of California Press

• When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.

  Raymond Chandler

  Book, Character, Emotional

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

• The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.

  Raymond Chandler

  Time, Writing, People

  "Writing a new Philip Marlowe: a question of dialogue, attitude and style" by John Banville, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2015.

• The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Personality, Perception

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

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