4 Raymond Chandler Quotes on Fiction

Raymond Chandler quotes on fiction

3. The solution, once revealed, must seem to have been inevitable. At least half of all the mystery novels published violate this law.

6. The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.

24. Undoubtedly the stories about them [hard-boiled detectives] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit a group of people, nor within so narrow a frame of logic. This was inevitable because the demand was for constant action; if you stopped to think you were lost. When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand.

31. You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.