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Elmore Leonard Quotes

I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you think that perhaps could become your sound, too. I did that with Hemingway, and I thought I was writing just like Hemingway. Then all of a sudden it occurred to me - he didn't have a sense of humor. I don't know anything he's written that's funny.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 11, 1925 - August 20, 2013

Topics

Funny Humor Day Me Writing Start

A mentor enables a person to achieve. A hero shows what achievement looks like.

Hero Achievement Mentor Looks Person

I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around.

New York New Started Arizona Just

It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field.

Best Together Team Office Just

People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.

Heart Time Moment People Mind Want

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

Robert Rauschenberg

Painting Looking Without Familiar

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

Age Time Poetry Sex Lens Race

Winning isn't always championships.

Winning Always Championships

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Best Genius First Always Prudence

I think there is a lot of experiences you have in coaching, and if you learn from the experiences as you go through them, whether it's as a coordinator or position coach, a quality-control coach, a head coach, whatever it might be, and you learn from those mistakes you make.

Mistakes Think Learn Coaching You

My writing life has included the struggle to bring up three children. What I do three or four times a year is take myself off to a hotel room to unblock a problem.

Life Children Myself Struggle Hotel

A comparison of the average professional baseball salary to the national average salary over the last one hundred years shows that for the first fifty years, 1920-1970, baseball players held a steady multiple of about 3.4 times the national average income.

Baseball Professional Salary First

I really got back to my New Orleans roots - my grandfather played with Fats Domino. We had to leave after Katrina, but I feel like, spiritually, I'm back there.

Roots Feel Back New Grandfather Got

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