Anthony Boucher Quotes

#1. On Friday evening Martin and Mona went to the United Artists Theatre to see a film already being mentioned for the Academy award. It had three stars, ran a hundred and ten minutes, and bored them both to petrifaction. (In brief, the award was in the bag.)
The Case of the Seven of Calvary

Anthony Boucher

#2. Eliminate the impossible. Then if nothing remains, some part of the 'impossible' was possible.

Anthony Boucher

#3. Richard Stark writes a harsh and frightening story of criminal warfare and vengeance with economy, understatement and a deadly amoral objectivity-a remarkable addition to the list of the shockers that the French call roman noirs.

Anthony Boucher

#4. Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell.

Anthony Boucher

#5. Among the extremely diverse books lumped together as 'mysteries,' I shall try to judge each fairly according to the best standards of the type which the author intended to produce.

Anthony Boucher

#6. Even Asmodeus, that limping devil who looked through rooftops at men's most secret actions, could not have told which of these thoughts masked an undercurrent of joy -- the joy of the man who know that he has killed wisely and well.

Anthony Boucher