Raymond Chandler Quote

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.


Letter to Charles W. Morton, 12 December 1945. As reported in: Raymond Chandler Speaking (1962) by Dorothy Gardiner and Katherine S. Walker


If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.