Quotes by Raymond Chandler

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an...

#Intelligence

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.

#Intelligence

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except...

#Age

That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate...

#Writers

Its idea of ''production value'' is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that...

#Movies

So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the...

#Television

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never...

#Television

The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even...

#Money

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to...

#Money

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood,...

#Books

Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you ought...

#Money

The more you reason the less you create

#Creativity, #Reason