Chandler, Raymond

Chandler, Raymond. The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler. The Ecco Press, New York. 1976. 

Philip Marlowe, the detective, drinks gimlets on the job in Raymond Chandler novels. A fellow taught me to like them, Marlowe tells a woman at a bar, who is drinking a gimlet, too, in The Long Goodbye. 

The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler Great Thoughts 19 February 1938 (p. 7)... 

Frederick Luhr, Raymond Chandler and Film (New York Ungar, 1982). 

Immediately afterward, ask your characters the questions from Exercise 2 (see page 29) and write down the answers. The answers will establish the context for your scene. When you have answered them, put everything away for the usual 24-hour period. The novelist and scriptwriter Raymond Chandler wrote in an article on writers in Hollywood that "the challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement. Such a technique requires experiment and elimination."1... 

Raymond Chandler, foreword to Raymond Chandler Speaking, ed. Dorothy Gardner (Boston Houghton Mifflin, 1962). 

What has the twenty-first century done to poor Janies He was always so forthright— for a spy—and so predictable. He was a Cold War hero deadly and debonair global, yet reassuringly Anglo-Saxon. He mastered fantastic technology in order to save us from those who sought to control it for their own ends. He was hot, he was cool, and he was in control. He was, as Raymond Chandler observed, what every man would like to be and what eveiy woman would like to have between her sheets. He was Bond. 

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