3 Raymond Chandler Quotes on Criticism

Raymond Chandler quotes on criticism

9. The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment.

26. There are no 'classics' of crime and detection. Not one. Within its frame of reference, which is the only way it should be judged, a classic is a piece of writing which exhausts the possibilities of its form and can never be surpassed. No story or novel of mystery has done that yet. Few have come close. Which is one of the principal reasons why otherwise reasonable people continue to assault the citadel.

27. Nor is it any part of my thesis to maintain that it [the detective story] is a vital and significant form of art. There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.