James M. Cain citations

“If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either”

“Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.”

“You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel.”

“That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.”

“Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.”

“I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake”

“I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.”