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Elmore Leonard Quotes

I don't have any of the modern electronics at all. I know the Internet would be a distraction. I would see things that interested me and never get back to writing.

Elmore Leonard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Me Writing Internet Back Know Never

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

Joey Santiago

Influence Early Seattle Grunge Scene

One of the reasons I'm so competitive - I mean, I'm not winning much anymore - at my age was because I always worked hard and because we have a level playing field. We don't have motorbikes in the peloton anymore.

Jens Voigt

Age Winning Mean Hard Always Level

I don't even date; I'm terrible with women.

Andy Weir

Women Terrible Date Even

Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.

John Wesley Powell

Prayer Dance Years Flood Come

I find there aren't that many options as an actor.

Rupert Everett

Find Actor Options Many

It is an abuse of power, when you are President of the United States, to use the White House to single out a single news organization, and castigate them and try to delegitimize them.

Monica Crowley

Power Organization You House White

I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.

Dennis Farina

Home Year Go Chicago Arizona Months

I got into my very theatrical phase. I wore only black: a big black hat and wild hair and wild black clothes, and I carried a sword stick. I went there still looking like Miss Florida, and I came back looking very different.

Delta Burke

Hat Hair Looking Black Clothes Back

I think it's... I don't want to become a social crusader on this issue, but I think sports, male sports, has traditionally not been an inviting environment for gay men to identify themselves. But eventually... we will get to a place where it is not an issue in sports.

David Stern

Sports Men Think Environment Gay

If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled.

Christian Lacroix

Fashion Trends Fashion Designer Just

Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life.

Bob Geldof

Life Family Know Out Because Songs

There are some projects where you have to just start doing it, and, after a while, the show starts telling you what it wants to be. You put your spirit in and, after a while, something bigger takes over, and it turns out to be much more fun and creative than what it was at the beginning.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Beginning Creative Fun Start Doing