Tuesday, November 18, 2008

A "Fictional" Writing Quote

"I am a writer Mr. Marlowe, and that is my job -- to be a lightning rod for ideas. To try them on the way people try on winter coats. If I didn't, I would be terrible at what I did. And a coward."

As said by a fictional version of Bertolt Brecht to Phillip Marlowe from "In The Jungle of Cities."

"In The Jungle..." is a short story by Roger L. Simon from the anthology "Raymond Chandler's Phillip Marlowe."

4 comments:

Gifted Typist said...

Beautiful evocation of the art.

Cormac Brown said...

Gifted,

Isn't it though and I'd like to imagine that Brecht actually said that.

Gifted Typist said...

Words is words, my friend. Don't matter who said em

Cormac Brown said...

Gifted,

I agree, though many are sticklers for credit and I understand that.