Raymond Chandler Quotes About Reading
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All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
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The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.
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I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living.
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At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
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The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.
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The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
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The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading.
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