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  • I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships. -- Patricia Heaton
  • Boy, we'll get Raymond out and we won't go hungry anymore. -- Bonnie Parker
  • Peter Boyle on Everybody Loves Raymond is more of an insane Dad. -- Kurtwood Smith
  • If Raymond Chandler came from the South, his name would be Ace Atkins. -- Kinky Friedman
  • After 'Raymond,' there was this big feeling of, 'What do I do next?' -- Ray Romano
  • I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower. -- Lorde
  • I don't know if you want to see the Everybody Loves Raymond guy in a nude scene. -- Ray Romano
  • Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice. -- Steve Toltz
  • Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it. -- James Ellroy
  • Did you know in the sea you can find a fish called, SWEETLIPS?"Ted and Raymond's Sea Adventure -- Rhonda Patton
  • I like to think I'm writing in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, although I don't ape his style. -- William Lashner
  • Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate. -- Leslie Fiedler
  • Marriage is like a tense, unfunny version of Everybody Loves Raymond, only it doesn't last 22 minutes. It lasts forever. -- Paul Rudd
  • And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London. -- Connie Willis
  • [Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people. -- James Ellroy
  • I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing. -- William Gibson
  • It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud. -- Ira Glass
  • I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond -- Will Estes
  • I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond. -- Will Estes
  • The idea that our son would be like Raymond Babbitt was a shocking reordering of everything. And something we couldn't quite fathom, really. -- Ron Suskind
  • When asked why he doesn't believe in astrology, the logician Raymond Smullyan responds that he's a Gemini and Geminis never believe in astrology. -- John Allen Paulos
  • I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art. -- Michael Connelly
  • Gritty and witty, The Chicago Way is done the classic Raymond Chandler Way. Harvey's taut plot, snappy prose, and memorable characters make this debut novel a real winner. -- Kathy Reichs
  • I loved 'Everybody Loves Raymond' because I like Ray and I thought it was beautifully cast, I thought it was great writing. I thought Patricia Heaton was wonderful. -- Bob Newhart
  • Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way. -- Lou Reed
  • I've always been a sci-fi/fantasy guy. My book reports in school, whenever you didn't have to do it on Shakespeare, I did it on, like, Piers Anthony and Raymond Feist. -- Jonathan Hickman
  • Sage made me complete. He made me happy. He was as much a part of me as my own body. How could anyone lose that and still exist?" - Clea Raymond -- Hilary Duff
  • In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites out of that were James M. Cain, Dassiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith. -- Eleanor Catton
  • Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis. -- Ray Romano
  • Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world. -- Charles Frazier
  • John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm most interested in are the writers who are most unlike me: for example, Denis Johnson. -- Jonathan Dee
  • Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world. -- Charles Frazier
  • With 'Worst. Person. Ever.' I knew where it started and where it had to end, but I threw Raymond as many curveballs as I could along the way. He's like the coyote in the 'Road Runner' cartoons. -- Douglas Coupland
  • Raymond Floyd. The man knows how to control situations. He was experienced. He didn't let me get overly excited; he kept me in check. It allowed me to free myself up, and I played really well with him. -- Payne Stewart
  • What people like are things to laugh at. Funny shows. It's all in the execution, the writing and the characters, not the setting. And the writing and the execution and the characters are GREAT on (Everybody Loves Raymond). -- Joe Rogan
  • You might learn as much about how to write by reading Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler, Saul Bellow, Paul Muldoon or a hundred other good novelists or poets than by seeing another round of John Ford revivals. -- David Denby
  • I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in a short space. I like Lorrie Moore. Amy Hempel. Tim O'Brien. Raymond Carver. All the heartbreakers. -- Laurel Nakadate
  • I can't believe how blessed I am! I'm married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I'm deeply in love with, and, my career is right where I want it to be. I can live like this forever! -- Jeanette MacDonald
  • I was very lucky with 'Soap' and 'Who's the Boss,' which was great fun, and then went on 'Coach' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond.' I've been truly blessed, and the work has all been fun and a joy. -- Katherine Helmond
  • From a literary standpoint, I've been loving Raymond Carver's short stories, William Carlos Williams' poems, Richard Siken's 'Crush', John Fante, and Jim Harrison's book of ghazals. I love film and photography too, so many of my songs are very image rich from those influences. -- Greta Salpeter
  • There's Carol like a rolling car, And Martin like a flying bird, And Adam like the Lord's First Word, And Raymond like the Harvest Moon, And Peter like a piper's tune, And Alan like the flowing on Of water. And there's John, like John. -- Eleanor Farjeon
  • I met a 13-year-old black child, Raymond, who had never been to school and had never learnt any words, yet it seemed to me that he was intelligent. It became apparent after a short period that Raymond thought in terms of visual signs and movements. -- Robert Wilson
  • I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing. -- Megan Abbott
  • I didn't get paid for my first gig supporting Usher Raymond in the Temple in Tottenham when I was 17 or 18. I bugged the promoter to let me play and it went down a storm. And after that I got loads of gigs, which were paid. -- Lemar
  • As a teenager, I read a lot of H.P. Lovecraft, so I wrote like H.P. Lovecraft. And in my 20s, I read a lot of Ross Macdonald and Raymond Chandler, so I wrote like those guys. But, little by little, you develop your own style. -- Stephen King
  • My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series I did a lot of studying before I wrote the first book. I learned police procedure, the California criminal law, and many areas outside my expertise. -- Sue Grafton
  • The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to come up with good stories. It'll be interesting to see how they do. The bottom line is, it starts with the writers and ends with the writers. -- William Devane
  • We [Raymond and Meursault] stared at each other without blinking, and everything came to a stop there between the sea, the sand, and the sun, and the double silence of the flute and the water. It was then that I realized that you could either shoot or not shoot. -- Albert Camus
  • It brings a smile to my face every time I look in the record book and see my name with the likes of Hutson and Lance Alworth and Raymond Berry, some of the fabled receivers of the NFL. It's all like a dream to me. I can't believe it's true. -- Steve Largent
  • I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of the book to herself in her room over and over and over. And Raymond Carver is great for that. Tobias Wolff is an author who is really good for that as well. -- Lorde
  • When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the page that we most want to visit and commune with. Faulkner's Mississippi, Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles, etc. The mind of the reader longs to be somewhere, not just anywhere, and certainly not nowhere. -- Walter Kirn
  • I used to do my best thinking while staring out airplane windows. The seat-back video system put a stop to that. Now I sit and watch old' Friends' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond' episodes. Walking is good, but here again, technology has interfered. I like to listen to iTunes while I walk home. I guess I don't think anymore. -- Mary Roach
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