Hard Boiled Fiction Quotes

#1. I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.

Megan Abbott

#2. Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that 'real Americans' believe in God.

Michael Newdow

#3. Persistence is useful, but there's no point in being an idiot about it.

Scott Adams

#4. Walter Kaylin was great! He was outrageous, he just carried it off. He'd have this one guy killing a thousand other guys. Then they beat him into the ground, you think he's dead, but he rises up again and kills another thousand guys.

Mario Puzo

#5. I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper.

Dave Eggers

#6. I love the smell of emissions

Sarah Palin

#7. Her bosom filled the jacket like a pair of boxing gloves stuck inside it.

Walter Kaylin

#8. Love well, laugh often and live well for Christ.

Karen Kingsbury

#9. It's definitely best for little children to have a regular life, especially if they can regulate it themselves.

Astrid Lindgren

#10. The fact that he gave her the creeps just proved she was normal. He had the flat, dead face of an item turned out by machines. His eyes were cold as marbles pressed into dough. His insides went with the surface. He could beat a man insane or take it himself, and it didn't mean a thing to him.

Walter Kaylin

#11. Everything in moderation - that's what I live by.

David Gilmour

#12. The Chinese went to their knees trying desperately to get their rifles into action, but the Mongols were on them too fast. Abusing their horses cruelly, they drove them right in among the riflemen, and men were kicked, stamped upon and died beneath frantic hooves.

Walter Kaylin

#13. Being sick robs a person of their health and being poor robs them of life's luxuries, but being pitied robs them of their will to live.

Bette Lee Crosby

#14. You don't trust money to a junkie. You don't trust money to anyone with hard needs.

Walter Kaylin

#15. Cory Booker became a millionaire because this is how the economy works for people of his class: Rich people give other rich people money to do nothing, simply because they 'deserve' it.

Alex Pareene

#16. I edited that [men's adventure] stuff, I read it all. I went from that to The Saturday Evening Post. The very first day at the Post, I edited a piece by John O'Hara and Hannah Arendt. She said, 'Come on, vat are you doink?'

"I said, 'You're okay Arendt, but you're no Walter Kaylin.

Mel Shestack

#17. 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

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

Murder in the Dog Park

Jill Yesko

#19. I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it.

Anderson Cooper

#20. Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.

John Banville

#21. I'm asking about the kid," Root said. "What does she get out of it?"
"My fist in her ear if she asks as many questions as you do," Pennant said. "You worry too much. Well, what do you say, Sultan?

Walter Kaylin

#22. She's dead. So is your fat pansy. You can be dead, too, if you want.

Richard Stark