Patrick Neylan > Patrick's Quotes

“I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.”
― Katherine Mansfield, Selected Letters

“Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all of the tricks and has nothing to say.”
― Raymond Chandler

“I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.”
― Raymond Chandler, Philip Marlowe's Guide to Life

“On the smooth brown hair was a hat that had been taken from its mother too young.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister

“Let love therefore be what it will, my Uncle Toby fell into it—And possibly, gentle reader, with such a temptation so wouldst thou: For never did thy eyes behold, or thy concupiscence covet, anything in this world more concupiscible than widow Wadman.”
― Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman