What did Raymond Chandler mean by: When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun. - Raymond Chandler Author · USA Copy
+ The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Raymond Chandler, Character, Extraordinary, Ordinary, 0 - Raymond Chandler Author · USA
+ It is not a fragrant world. Feraz Zeid, October 14, 2023December 26, 2023, Raymond Chandler, Anger, Society, 0 - Raymond Chandler Author · USA
+ The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has. Feraz Zeid, August 7, 2023December 12, 2023, Raymond Chandler, Law, Lawyer, 0 - Raymond Chandler Author · USA
+ I’m killing time and it’s dying hard. Feraz Zeid, October 6, 2023December 26, 2023, Raymond Chandler, Dying, Killing, 0 - Raymond Chandler Author · USA
+ He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn’t owe too much money. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Raymond Chandler, Contentment, Sleep, 0 - Raymond Chandler Author · USA
+ An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Raymond Chandler, Art, Identity, Love, 0 - Raymond Chandler Author · USA
+ They write them long because they can’t write them short. Feraz Zeid, August 14, 2023December 12, 2023, Raymond Chandler, Book, Writing, 0 - Raymond Chandler Author · USA
+ The challenge is to write about real things magically. Feraz Zeid, August 4, 2023December 12, 2023, Raymond Chandler, Challenge, Writing, 0 - Raymond Chandler Author · USA
The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau. - Jeff Beck
An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it. - Jeff Cooper Firearms instructor and author
Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands. - Jeff Cooper Firearms instructor and author
A fine marksman is with a second rate rifle is far more effective than the reverse. - Jeff Cooper Firearms instructor and author
So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot. - Jeffery Deaver Author · USA