Quote by Raymond Chandler
If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come. – Raymond Chandler

Other quotes by Raymond Chandler

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. – Raymond Chandler

Category:
Society
Read Quote

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. – Raymond Chandler

Category:
Age
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Hollywood
category

You write a book like that youre fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, its like pissing in your fathers beer. – Ernest Hemingway

Category:
Hollywood

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle. – Ben Hecht

Category:
Hollywood

In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owners mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world. – Ben Hecht

Category:
Hollywood

I hate a man who always says yes to me. When I say no I like a man who also says no. – Samuel Goldwyn

Category:
Hollywood

Random Quotes

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time. – Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly. – Max Nordau

Category:
Self-Respect

I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow. – Paz de la Huerta

Category:
Medical

I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but thats not the case. Sure, my parents were generous I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. Ive worked really hard. I opened the store myself. – Kim Kardashian

Category:
car