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One would think a writer would be happy here -- if a writer is every happy anywhere.

One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is every happy anywhere.
– Raymond Chandler

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  1. One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is every happy anywhere. – Raymond Chandler
  2. A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong. – Raymond Chandler
  3. It’s so much more than a child’s story. – Matt Chandler on LIFE Today. – Matt Chandler
  4. You like it in jail?It’s not too bad. You don’t meet the best people, but who the hell wants to? – Raymond Chandler
  5. You like it in jail?”It’s not too bad. You don’t meet the best people, but who the hell wants to? – Raymond Chandler
  6. I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble. – Raymond Chandler
  7. A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins. – Raymond Chandler
  8. I like games of chance, including women. – Raymond Chandler
  9. There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that. – Raymond Chandler
  10. One day, everything will be like before again. And it is not like it. – Raymond Chandler
  11. The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me. – Raymond Chandler
  12. But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. – Raymond Chandler
  13. Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness. – Raymond Chandler
  14. It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone. – Raymond Chandler
  15. He didn’t know the right people. That’s all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country. – Raymond Chandler
  16. You can make a lot of mistakes in just one lifetime. (I’ll Be Waiting) – Raymond Chandler
  17. The voice was cool, drawling, and insolent, but the eyes were something else. She looked about as hard to get as a haircut. – Raymond Chandler
  18. Be with someone that makes you happy… STRIKE THAT…Be Someone that makes you happy. – Raymond D Longoria Jr
  19. I’m not out to make everybody happy. I’m out to make the right people happy. – WJ Raymond
  20. I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer. – Robert Lynn Asprin
  21. Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Anyone who lives inside the US can never be considered an outsider anywhere in the country – Martin Luther King Jr
  22. If you want to be happy now, love now; if you want to be happy later, love later; but if you want to be happy always, love always. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  23. You can’t raise happy kids in a happy family if you aren’t happy and don’t know who you are. You can’t pin your life on someone else’s happiness. – Jean Oram
  24. Do what makes you happy, make yourself happy, don’t wait for anyone to make you happy… – Nourhan Mamdouh
  25. Do what makes you happy, make yourself happy, don’t wait for anyone to make you happy… – Nourhan Mamdouh
  26. So that made me happy but the part that really made me happy was that you wanted me to be happy. That’s what Thank you means. – Margaret Atwood
  27. If your heart is your home, you can be happy anywhere. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  28. The real world-”where I probably could never be happy, and never get anywhere. – Haruki Murakami
  29. Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart – Sharon Salzberg
  30. When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself. – David Leavitt
  31. A writer creates like the sculptor, with one exception: The writer must create his block of marble, before chiseling away the non-essentials. – Garry Fitchett
  32. We don’t know who was tricked by whom. Did the writer deceive the word, or did the word deceive the writer? – Dejan Stojanovic
  33. The important thing for any writer to remember is to take the writing seriously, but not the writer. – AE Poynor
  34. A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100,000 You are a writer. – Uma Nnenna
  35. The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd. – Charles Bukowski
  36. Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer. – Bangambiki Habyarimana
  37. I’m a struggling writer, I’m struggling to convince people I’m a writer. – Tom Conrad
  38. Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn’t finding an idea, it’s choosing one – Jo Linsdell
  39. Who knows why we do it? And when we’ve done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That’s what makes a writer a writer. – Chloe Thurlow
  40. I could never stand to be a writer. Not a real writer. It’s entirely too awful, having thoughts that refuse to become sentences. – Caitln R Kiernan

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