'He talks as the man of his age talks, that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness.' -Raymond Chandler
Iconic author of hard-boiled fiction and one of the inventors of the private detective archetype as we know it, Chandler wrote nine novels and several short stories about Philip Marlowe, the detective played by Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep. This quote describes Chandler's treatment of how this archetypal detective should behave; elsewhere, he explained that a detective "acts and speaks like a real man," and "can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective."
