Quotes about Noir fiction

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My feet crunched over dry hickory leaves. Wood rangers had stapled up Smokey Bear (“Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires!”) — Ed Lynskey, The Blue Cheer
The digital sunset always looks better than the real thing, always. Because a sunset generated by the basic package of y — Will Christopher Baer, Hell's Half Acre
The waitress came by with a pot of black coffee. She was a smallish woman, about forty, still had some of her looks left — L. Joseph Shosty, Herbie's Diner
about Tommy, you went through your whole life craving these little pockets of time and missing them for more time than y — Lily Gardner, A Bitch Called Hope
There were men in their fifties, men who take a stab at fitness, men who try. They may not look young, but they still lo — Lily Gardner, A Bitch Called Hope
that was the thing about luck, its laws were those of scarcity. — Lily Gardner, A Bitch Called Hope
The Land of Civilian was a dry bitter place where you sat in your car staring at drawn curtains and closed doors for hou — Lily Gardner, A Bitch Called Hope
He began as a minor imitator of Fitzgerald, wrote a novel in the late twenties which won a prize, became dissatisfied wi — Barry N. Malzberg, The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
Machines can't lie," I said, lying through my circuits. — Adam Christopher, Made to Kill
The viewpoint character in each story is usually someone trapped in a living nightmare, but this doesn't guarantee that — Francis M. Nevins Jr., Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich
Inevitably, his vision verged toward the fantastic; he published a scattering of stories - most included in this volume — Barry N. Malzberg, The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
How the Hell is it we go to pick up Jenna Jameson and end up with the fucking chick from those Kill Bill movies? — Todd Morr, Jesus Saves, Satan Invests
Life is swimming to shore with cowboy boots on. — Christopher G. Moore, God Of Darkness
I wasn't that good you know. What I was was a guy who could write a little, publishing in magazines surrounded by people — Cornell Woolrich, The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
The hallmarks of the noir style are fear, guilt and loneliness, breakdown and despair, sexual obsession and social corru — Francis M. Nevins Jr., Darkness At Dawn
But suspense presupposes uncertainty. No matter how nightmarish the situation, real suspense is impossible when we know — Francis M. Nevins Jr., Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich
No! The mission was to terminate one Hipo officer. Not four by random. You didn’t get him so the operation was a failure — Steen Langstrup, The Informer