The Raymond Chandler Papers

"Shakespeare would have done well in any generation, because he would have refused to die in a corner; he would have taken the false gods and made them over, he could have taken the current formulae and forced them into something lesser men would have thought them incapable of. Alive today he would have undoubtedly written and directed motion pictures, plays, and God knows what. Instead of saying, 'This medium is no good,' he would have used it and made it good." - Raymond Chandler (from a 1949 letter)