Raymond Chandler Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: July 23, 1888 - March 26, 1959
Birthday: July 23
Death: March 26
The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get published. The average -- or only slightly above average -- detective story does.... Whereas the good novel is not at all the same kind of book as the bad novel. It is about entirely different things. But the good detective story and the bad detective story are about exactly the same things, and they are about them in very much the same way.
topic: Book, Average, Stories, Detective Stories, Above Average
