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

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Hollywood
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The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom. – Raymond Chandler

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Storytelling
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Australian Aborigines say that the big stories—the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life—are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting their prey in the bush. – Robert Moss

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Storytelling

To be a person is to have a story to tell. – Karen Christence Dinesen

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Storytelling

Writing a story allows us to play with our imaginary friends when we are adults. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

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Storytelling

Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form. – Jean Luc Godard

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Storytelling

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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Times malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day! – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Theres no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives. – David Brin

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