Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight.
Dashiell HammettThe truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.
Dashiell HammettIf you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen.
Dashiell Hammett