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Elmore Leonard Quotes

American - Novelist | October 11, 1925 - August 20, 2013

I do this a lot with names. I'll start with a name, and then for some reason he won't talk much, or he's older than I pictured him just because of a name I give him. So then I finally get the right name, and I can't shut the guy up. This always happens. There's always a character who gives me trouble that way.

Character Me Start Name Trouble Way

I decided to write Westerns because there was a terrific market for Westerns in the '50s. There were a lot of pulp magazines, like 'Dime Western' and '10 Story Western' that were still being published. The better ones paid two cents a word. And I thought, 'I like Westerns.'

Story Thought Better Write Two Paid

I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.

Mystery Know Want Never Going Books

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

Sound Write Everyone Tell Own Going

It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the keys. I'm doing action stories, so that's the way I like to do it.

Me Action Doing Way Afraid Years

If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will be interesting. But as you write it, other ideas occur - better ideas that have to do with what you're writing.

Work Ideas Writing Think Better You

I never know what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and I begin to think of what I'd like to do next, then I'll know that what I'm writing is in hand. I'll think of an ending and it will be fine.

Writing Book Ending Think End Know

The bad guys are the fun guys. The only people I have trouble with are the so-called normal types. Their language isn't very colorful, and they don't talk with any certain sound.

Fun People Language Bad Trouble

If I have several bad guys and I only want to end up with one of them, then I have to decide which one I want in the end. And normally it's the one who is the most interesting talker.

End Interesting Bad Want Decide Up

I have fun writing. I don't make it a chore. I don't have to struggle with it.

Struggle Fun Writing Have Fun Chore

I don't want to write any more screenplays, I'll tell you that right now. It's a waste of time. You've got too many people who think they have the answer to a good screenplay and they don't. No one knows.

Good Time People Think You Want

My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.

Myself Purpose I Am Feel Enough Who

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