Quote by Raymond Chandler
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. - Raymond

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. – Raymond Chandler

Other quotes by Raymond Chandler

The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called significant literature will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles. – Raymond Chandler

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Public
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The moment a man begins to talk about technique thats proof that he is fresh out of ideas. – Raymond Chandler

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Talent
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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

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Hollywood
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Other Quotes from
Storytelling
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This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories. – Terry Tempest Williams

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Storytelling

Under the Earth I go,
On the oak leaf I stand.
I ride on the filly
That was never foaled,
And I carry the dead in my hand. – Anon.

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Storytelling

The best of the old stories spoke to the listener because they spoke not just to the ears but to the heart as well. – Jane Yolen

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Storytelling

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Storytelling

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Love doesnt grow on trees like apples in Eden – its something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too. – Joyce Cary

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There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of peoples money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result. – Steve Forbes

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By giving people the power to share, were making the world more transparent. – Mark Zuckerberg

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power

Everyone is wise until he speaks. – Proverb

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