Hard Boiled Detective Quotes

#1. My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series I did a lot of studying before I wrote the first book. I learned police procedure, the California criminal law, and many areas outside my expertise.

Sue Grafton

#2. I remembered reading in a hard-boiled detective novel that if you drink in the same place two nights in a row, the bartender and waiters will remember your face.

Ryu Murakami

#3. The mixture of Sarmatic and German blood had contributed to improve the features of the Alani, to whiten their swarthy complexions, and to tinge their hair with a yellowish cast, which is seldom found in the Tartar race.

Edward Gibbon

#4. My glass is not only half-empty, I'm convinced someone spit in it.

Judy Nichols

#5. I'm hurling all the little joys against the greater sadness. The sadness is a giant weight. It presses down. Its mean: What's the point?

Luke Davies

#6. Sometimes a girl's gotta be bad to be good.

Murder in the Dog Park

Jill Yesko

#7. I have a real interest in working with younger Native artists. I think it's a very important way for Native people to communicate the realities of our culture and remember our ancestors.

John Trudell

#8. Time to die. Angel said in her sweet little girl voice.

James Patterson

#9. You are not a victim of your circumstance.
Stay determine to endure hard times.
No situation is permanent.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. When a beautiful blonde asks, you don't say no.

V.T. Davy

#11. PARKER spent two weeks on the white sand beach at Biloxi, and on a white sandy bitch named Belle, ...
Beat that for a PC opening line ... not

Richard Stark

#12. It was a dark, dismal afternoon, like they all seem to be
these days, when I got this call. I could hear the rain
battering the windowpane of my office when the phone rang.

C.S. Woolley

#13. When you are without friends, the next best thing is an enemy who knows you well.

Midnight Blue