Raymond Chandler's Words of Wisdom To Inspire You

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Raymond Chandler

There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science and the second is art.

Raymond Chandler

The more you reason the less you create.

Raymond Chandler

Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.

Raymond Chandler

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

Raymond Chandler

Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had.

Raymond Chandler

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

Raymond Chandler

The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.

Raymond Chandler

There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

Raymond Chandler

If people could deal with each other honestly, they would not need agents.

Raymond Chandler

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