Elmore Leonard Quotes

To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.

Elmore Leonard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I have a lot of tea in the morning. I always have toast and peanut butter.

Joanna Coles

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There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change.

Jennifer Granholm

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I'm not afraid of death.

Maurice Sendak

DeathAfraid

God often gives nuts to toothless people.

Matt Groening

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I think it all comes from the same source, really, the writing of music, the writing of words, the playing of music. It's what drives anyone to be interested in the arts. I think it's a poetic gene; it's a wanting to go beyond.

Stephen Hough

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With the Internet, there are so many ways to connect with other writers who will be some of your best friends and best sources of support for your entire life.

Tomi Adeyemi

LifeBestSupportInternetFriends

After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.

Tom Stoppard

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Extreme poverty is extremely dangerous.

Martin O'Malley

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You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that's the one thing people can't take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

Michelle Obama

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My mother is not a woman of ordinary culture. She knows literature and speaks Spanish better than I do. She even corrected my poems and gave me advice when I was studying rhetoric.

Jose Rizal

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I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian De Palma's apprentice director. And it was such a harrowing, disillusioning, awful experience.

Douglas Rushkoff

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I was glad to be sober, but after ninety days, people weren't patting me on the back anymore, sayin', 'Good job on the sobriety! Go get 'em!'

Chris Farley

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