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Elmore Leonard Quotes

I think the best advice I give is to try not to write. Try not to overwrite, try not to make it sound too good. Just use your own voice. Use your own style of putting it down.

Elmore Leonard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Style Best Voice Think Advice

My time at Yahoo, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life.

Jerry Yang

Life Time Present My Life Exciting

When I've pictured what Heaven would be like, I've always imagined myself free to explore the outer reaches of space.

Jeremy Robinson

Myself Space Free Heaven Explore

I love working with smart people and being challenged. I also like working on stuff that's relevant. That's my adrenaline shot.

Anders Hejlsberg

Love Smart People Smart People Stuff

My stand-up is clean; it's not too edgy. I've played it safe since the beginning.

Anjelah Johnson

Beginning Edgy Clean Safe Played

I am the smartest comedian in the history of the world.

Andy Kindler

History I Am World Smartest Comedian

You couldn't make 'Heaven's Gate' today. Even were you to quadruple the resources to make the movie, you couldn't make it because the people don't exist.

Michael Cimino

Today People You Heaven Gate Exist

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

Toni Morrison

Time Book Short Painful No Time

Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.

Mason Cooley

Justice Think Mercy Asking Before

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

Joni Mitchell

Music Writing Gift Loss Born Out

To come out in the music business, you only really get one shot. A lot of people get to play small gigs first, and build up that way, without anyone really seeing them.

Dhani Harrison

Business Music People Small You Way

Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.

Brian Keene

Writing You Down Sitting Netflix

I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.

Chuck Close

Great Hopeless Difficulty Faces Deal