What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about?
Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking,
-- 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.