Raymond Chandler Quotes about Language

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It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people.

It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people.

Raymond Chandler

Delicate Things, People, Language

Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.35, Grove Press

I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be passe before it gets into print.

Raymond Chandler

Two, Language, Kind

Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.80, Univ of California Press