57 Quotes by James M. Cain

That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.

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.

If you have to do it, you can do it.

They threw me off the haytruck about noon.

Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.

New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages.

The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.

A guitar has moonlight in it.

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.