Albert Isaac Bezzerides

“They? A new word in my vocabulary. They. A wonderful word. The plural of 'it'.”

“The only thing that really matters is the story.”

“I write about the people I know. I write about the way they are, not the way they should be.”

“If you're a writer, you're a writer. You can't stop.”

“I didn't invent film noir. I just wrote about the world I knew.”

“I'm interested in the people who are struggling, the people who are on the bottom.”

“You get your story from life. You can't make it up.”

“I was just a working stiff, and I wrote about other working stiffs.”

“The corruption is everywhere. You can't escape it.”

“What's in the box?”

“Do me a favor, will you? Keep your hands off the steering wheel.”

“You're a road man. You'll always be a road man.”

“Every man is a novelist. Every man has a story.”

“I never thought of myself as a poet. I was just telling stories.”