I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.
The spirit of Woody Guthrie lives in the heart of Chris Chandler.
All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.
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.
Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.
Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley. Ollie Chandler in Deception
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.
In February 1953, I was making a second picture with Jeff Chandler, one called War Arrow. Jeff was a real sweetheart, but acting with him was like acting with a broomstick.
[Tyson Chandler] doesn't listen to people either. He does whatever he feels like and people will be like, "Who dressed you?"
I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.
Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.
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.
As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery O'Conner, Carson McCullers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and so many others. As a kid Kipling and Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Robert E. Howard.
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.
Tyson [Chandler] encouraged me and was like, if that's what you want to wear, wear that.
My greatest crush was Chandler from 'Friends'. And Goran Ivanisevic.
