I’ve been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
– Dashiell Hammett
Related Quotes:
- Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready.Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter? – Dashiell Hammett
- I just tell you what happens. I don’t explain it. – Dashiell Hammett
- The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter. – Dashiell Hammett
- It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and the American economy. – Rose Wilder Lane
- You can influence a whole plethora of things, and just as they can influence you then you can influence them. – Stephen Richards
- What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry. – Oscar Wilde
- The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution. – Benjamin Rush
- Violence isn’t a Democrat or Republican problem. It’s an American problem, requiring an American solution. – DaShanne Stokes
- We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories. – Steven C Rockefeller
- The American family shattered for the simple reason that it was American, not global. – John F MacArthur Jr
- Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. – Robert Hughes
- People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American. – David Sedaris
- Does this mean that in some places I’m American and in some places I’m African American and in other places, by logical extension, I’m nobody? – Roberto Bolao
- I don’t believe in the Constitution because I’m American, I’m American because I believe in the Constitution. – JSB Morse
- When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical. – Ralph Ellison
- There is nothing political about American literature. – Laura Bush
- The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie. – James ey
- I am the penny whistle of American literature. – Nelson Algren
- True leaders apply law and grace, for those who only apply only law have little influence and those who apply only grace do not influence properly. – Orrin Woodward
- Since you can’t be influence by people who hate you, you cannot influence people you hate also. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Influence: It takes an influential leader to excellently raise up leaders of influence. – Anyaele Sam Chiyson
- The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching. – Graham Greene
- Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. – Oscar Wilde
- Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality. – Romain Gary
- We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. – F Sionil Jos
- Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I’m declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature. – Tadeusz Konwicki
- We are all orbits of some sort,circling around the world we call our own, and literature…Literature is a compass; – Thabo Jijana
- The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read – Oscar Wilde
- The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. – CS Lewis
- If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself. – Abiola Abrams
- Music has become my driving force behind my life, it to me, can fix bad moods, bad days, even bad people. It is the beat of my life. – Rian Dawson
- Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny. – Criss Jami
- Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good. – Dejan Stojanovic
- Today is a really bad day, Syd. A really, really bad day. Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective – Colleen Hoover
- If the book’s bad enough, they’ll publish it, and if it’s bad bad enough, the daily reviewers will love it, and it’ll sell. – James Purdy
- Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It’s just too bad. – Jincy Willett
- Karna is a good man, but he sees good even in what is bad. His seeing it as good doesn’t make the bad good, but makes his goodness look bad. – Kavita Kan
- Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition. – George S Patton Jr
- A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man. – Massad Ayoob