James M. Cain Quotes

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

I ripped all her clothes off. She twisted and turned, slow, so they would slip out from under her. T...

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

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

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

I knew then what I had done. I had killed a man. I had killed a man to get a woman. I had put myself...

I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.

...if he can write a book at all, a writer cannot do it by peeping over his shoulder at somebody els...