I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.
From Raymond Chandler
From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.
He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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.
The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
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