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[RAYMOND CHANDLER TO EDGAR CARTER, March 28, 1947]

By the way, do you ever read the Bible? I suppose not very often, but I had occasion to the other night and believe me it is a lesson in how not to write for the movies. The worst kind of overwriting. Whole chapters that could have been said in one paragraph. And the dialogue! I bet you Macmillan’s are sore as hell they didn’t get to publish it. They could have made it a best-seller easy. And as for getting it banned in Boston I don’t think they’d even have to grease the Watch and Ward Committee to put the red light on it.

            Regards and wet fishes,
                         Ray