Hard-Boiled & Soft-Centered

On this day, 26 March 1959, American crime novelist Raymond Chandler died. Here’s a look at his life and work. (This article was originally published in 2005 and appeared in the British magazine ‘Chapter and Verse’.) The Late Show You can picture the scene, a world-weary private detective, gun in hand, walks warily down a […]

Quotes on Writing

There are many great quotes on the craft of writing. Here are some I particularly like. If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I’d type a little faster.~Isaac Asimov I’d rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.~Jack Smith All my […]