Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.
Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It...
Forget the past. No one becomes successful in the past.
Give a man a truth and he will think for a day. Teach a man to reason and he...
Even when I'm playing someone named Fat Amy I'm all about confidence and...
An attitude of philosophic doubt of suspended judgment is repugnant to the...
Here again as I conceive gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.