Quotes About Hardboiled

I got up on my feet and went over to the bowl in the corner and threw cold water on my face. After a little wile I felt a little better, but very little. I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.

Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.

Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.

I've always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That's how I see at least the prose elements of scriptwriting.

I ought to be more hardboiled; I'd like to be. I don't think I have it in me. To write in clipped sentences. To employ gritty metaphor in the introduction of sultry blondes... I can't do it, so why bother trying?

In its rather clinical view of death, 'True Grit' rivals the hardboiled world of 'Red Harvest'-era Dashiell Hammett and prefigures Cormac McCarthy by 20 years.

James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle.

I would love to write more about my hardboiled gumshoe on Mars, Alex Lomax.