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

They dont want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they cant use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them. – Raymond Chandler

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

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Age
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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 the tricks and has nothing to say. – Raymond Chandler

Category:
Art
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Other Quotes from
Storytelling
category

This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories. – Terry Tempest Williams

Category:
Storytelling

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. – Jean De La Bruyere

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Storytelling

The story—from Rumplestiltskin to War and Peace—is one of the basic tools invented by the human mind for the purpose of understanding. There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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Storytelling

If you dont know the trees you may be lost in the forest, but if you dont know the stories you may be lost in life. – Anon.

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Storytelling

Random Quotes

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket. – Raymond Chandler

Category:
Smiles

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state. – J.Osterhout

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Programming

Remorse is virtues root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. – William Cullen Bryant

Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Attitude