Author: Raymond Chandler

Cited by

• Nina Berry (1)
  • IN: City of Spies (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Hollywood is wonderful. Anyone who doesn't like it is either crazy or sober.
    FROM: NULL, (1941), NULL, US/England
• Bret Easton Ellis (1)
  • IN: Imperial Bedrooms (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself
    FROM: The Long Goodbye, (1953), Novel, US/England
• Gordon Ferris (3)
  • IN: Pilgrim Soul (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If there were enough like him, I think the world would be a very safe place to live in, and yet not too dull to be worth living in.
    FROM: The Simple Art of Murder, (1944), Essay, US/England
  • IN: Ruth Dare Kill (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
    FROM: The Long Goodbye, (1953), Novel, US/England
  • IN: The Hanging Shed (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I'll take the big sordid dirty crowded city.
    FROM: The Long Goodbye, (1953), Novel, US/England
• Jonathan Lethem (1)
  • IN: Gun, with Occasional Music (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There was nothing to it. The Super Chief was on time, as it almost always is, and the subject was as easy to spot as a kangaroo in a dinner jacket.
    FROM: Playback, (1958), Novel, US/England
• Max Collins (1)
  • IN: Deadly Beloved (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “Down these mean streets a woman must go who is not herself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.”
    FROM: The Simple Art of Murder, Paraphrased, (1950), Essay, US/England
• Bradley Spinelli (1)
  • IN: The Painted Gun (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
    FROM: The Big Sleep, (1939), Novel, US/England
• Karl Wagner (1)
  • IN: Why Not You and I? (1987) Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
    FROM: The Goodbye, (1953), Novel, US/England
• Duane Swierczynski (1)
  • IN: The Blonde (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
    FROM: "Farewell, My Lovely", (1940), Novel, US/England
• Stuart Woods (1)
  • IN: Swimming To Catalina (1998) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: Mendy Menenzez: “You got told, you better stay told.” Philip Marlowe: “Oh, sure. I do something you don’t like and I’m swimming to Catalina with a streetcar on my back.”
    FROM: The Long Goodbye, (1953), Novel, US/England
• Thomas Mullen (1)
  • IN: The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It seemed a little too pat. It had the austere simplicity of fiction rather than the tangled woof of fact.
    FROM: The Big Sleep, (1939), Novel, US/England
• Martin Limon (1)
  • IN: G. I. Bones (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Success is always and everywhere a racket.
    FROM: Letter to John Houseman, (1949), Letter, US/England
• Gene Kerrigan (1)
  • IN: The Rage (2011) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: The law was something to be manipulated for profit and power. The streets were dark with something more than night.
    FROM: Trouble is my business, (1939), Novel, US
• C.J Box (1)
  • IN: Vicious Circle (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Thers is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
    FROM: The Long Goodbye, (1953), Novel, US/England
• Adam Christopher (2)
  • IN: Standard Hollywood Depravity (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: You ask me how anybody can survive Hollywood? Well, I must say that I personally had a lot of fun there.
    FROM: NULL, (1951), NULL, US
  • IN: Made To Kill (2015) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Did you ever read what they call Science Fiction? It's a scream. It is written like this...
    FROM: NULL, (1953), NULL, US/England
• Thelma Adams (1)
  • IN: Playdate (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Those hot dry winds that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen.
    FROM: Red Wind, (1938), Short Story, US