Raymond Chandler

Top 10 Suicidal Writers (10 person items)

"Chandler was the father of Philip Marlowe, the hard-nosed, wise-cracking private detective played by Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep. He didn’t publish his first novel until he was in his fifties. He was a hard drinking, somewhat irascible man who had a tendency toward clinical depression. When his wife, who was 18 years his senior, died in 1954, he went off the deep end, attempting suicide in 1955. His gritty, minimalist prose has long been celebrated since his death in 1959."

Escritores bêbados! (11 person items)

"O álcool é como o amor. O primeiro beijo é mágico, o segundo é íntimo, o terceiro é rotina. Depois dele, você tira as roupas da moça. "