Richard

“All the rest of the nonsense a story requires is just a long seduction of the ending. You throw out murders and reversals and heroes and detectives and spies, juggle love affairs and near escapes and standoffs with marvellous guns, kidnappings and sorcery and comic relief and gravediggers and princesses and albino dragons, and it's all just to lure an ending into your bed.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance

“I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

“It probably started in poetry; almost everything does.”
― Raymond Chandler

“I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.”
― Bill Hicks