Raymond Chandler Quote

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.


The simple art of murder (ed. Ballantine Books, 1968)


A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.