Tend to Steal Things

       " I tend to steal things from Chandler by the handful" Crumley says. "Like Eliot said, 'Bad writers imitate, good writers steal', but i think he stole that from a French poet".

Jesse Sublett
excerpt from

You Can't Go Home Again

2001

Austin Chronicle

James Crumley

                        https://www.austinchronicle.com/books/2001-10-26/83407/
                   http://www.distinctlymontana.com/article/03/12/2011/right-madness