Elmore Leonard Quotes

When you are developing your style, you avoid weaknesses. I am not good at describing things, so I stay away from it. And if anyone is going to describe anything at all, it's going to be from the point of view of the character, because then I can use his voice, and his attitude will be revealed in the way he describes what he sees.

Elmore Leonard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodAttitudeCharacterStyleI Am

Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it's a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a novelist mad. Sometimes it energizes us.

Joanna Scott

TruthHeartTimeArtLieStart

I'm not afraid to say I'm competitive.

Andrew Luck

SayAfraidCompetitive

It's like an OCD thing, it's not as much something I enjoy. If I see a chapstick that I've never tried, I have to buy it. And then once that door's been opened, I have to check the whole store to see if there are more chapsticks that I don't have.

Anna Kendrick

DoorEnjoyMoreNeverSeeI See

Mostly, I think of myself as having great common sense. I've always been proud of that. Was I a terrific student? Absolutely not. But put me in a roomful of people, and I don't think I'm ever going to embarrass myself.

Matt Lauer

GreatMyselfPeopleMeProudThink

I really don't have much respect for the people who live their lives motivated by an exit strategy existing, being performed. There was no option that we were trained in that says, 'If it gets too hard, get up and leave.'

Andy Grove

LiveRespectPeopleStrategyHard

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Jean-Paul Sartre

ExperiencePeopleActingQuestion

Education is the best economic policy there is.

Tony Blair

EducationBestPolicyEconomic

Anytime I go on Twitter, there's always the good but the bad as well.

Rita Ora

GoodBadGoAlwaysWellTwitter

When I became a cadet, I immediately decided I wanted to be an undercover cop because I don't like uniforms.

Ron Stallworth

UniformsBecauseCopLikeWanted

I got to have about 15 minutes with Michelle Obama, and that was a big deal because you're like, 'Wow, I'm part of living history.' You know? I definitely think she could take me in an arm wrestling match.

Ross Mathews

HistoryMeThinkYouKnowLiving

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

Louis Aragon

FunnyNatureIdeasGeniusKnow

My father and one of my grandfathers died very early, and female figures have been an influential part of my life.

Juergen Teller

LifeFatherMy LifeEarlyBeenPart

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