John Varner

“Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.”
― Raymond Chandler, Trouble is My Business

“guess I can put two and two together.” “Sometimes the answer’s four,” I said, “and sometimes it’s twenty-two.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man

“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”
― Raymond Chandler, Long Goodbye

“training is not knowledge and knowledge is not strength, but combine training with knowledge and then you”
― Warren Murphy, The Last Temple