Raymond Chandler

"Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon."

"There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art."

"A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled."

"Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all of the tricks and has nothing to say."