If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.
Source: Letter, 12 Dec 1945, to Atlantic Monthly editor, Charles W. Morton, in response to criticism of his article, Writers in Hollywood.
-- Raymond Chandler, (Jul 23 1888-1959), US short-story writer, novelist; He was considered master of hard-boiled crime stories, e.g., The Big Sleep, 1939 and Playback, 1958.