James M. Cain Quotes

Best Quotes by James M. Cain (Top 10)

If your writing doesn`t keep you up at night, it won`t keep anyone else up either".
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Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.
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You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it's working on; then you can write a novel.
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I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake
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That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.
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If you have to do it, you can do it.
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I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.
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I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.
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She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another.
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A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery. But it does have to be furnished with things that mean something to you.
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The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.
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They threw me off the haytruck about noon.
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O.K." "Gee I'm glad." "Me too. I'm so sick of hot dogs and beer and apple pie with cheese on the side I could heave it all in the river." "You'll love it, Frank. We'll get a place up in the mountains, where it's cool, and then, after I get my act ready, we can go all over the world with it. Go as we please, do as we please, and have plenty of money to spend. Have you got a little bit of gypsy in you?" "Gypsy? I had rings in my ears when I was born.
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A lot of novelists start late-Conrad, Pirandello, even Mark Twain. When you're young, chess is all right, and music and poetry. But novel-writing is something else. It has to be learned, but it can't be taught. This bunkum and stinkum of college creative writing courses! The academics don't know that the only thing you can do for someone who wants to write is to buy him a typewriter.
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Yes, I have actually mined coal, and distilled liquor, as well as seen a girl in a pink dress, and seen her take it off. I am 54 years old, weigh 220 pounds, and look like the chief dispatcher of a long-distance driving concern. I am a registered Democrat. I drink.
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The postman always rings twice.
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