Elmore Leonard Quotes

Writing on the beach is not what it's cracked up to be. The sand blows, and you perspire, and the page gets all blotty and messed up, so I don't do that anymore.

Elmore Leonard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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BeachWritingSandYouMessed UpUp

I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them.

John Grisham

LawProblemsEnjoyI CanSayHand

I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled stand on a Monday, then switch firmly to the opposite principle on Tuesday if it is to their advantage.

John Leo

TimeMondayPeopleStandStandards

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Steve Jobs

LifeFutureTrustMeLooking Forward

I've always been like the No. 1 Boston hip-hop fan.

Statik Selektah

Hip-HopBostonAlwaysBeenLikeFan

I do what makes me laugh.

Stephan Pastis

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Most of us function under the model we have to get something in order to do something, in order to be something. If this happens, then I will be happy. And I'm suggesting to you that we live our entire lives based on that model, and that model is fundamentally flawed.

Srikumar Rao

LiveHappyBe HappyYouWillOrder

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Robert Frost

LifeWisdomGreatConfusionDelight

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

Roald Dahl

FearDayNew DayIdeasNewNever

I give Bill Gates an A for vision because, as a business person and a strategist, he's brilliant. His flaw is that his view is not informed by a humanistic or compassionate vision of how to make computers work for people.

Mitch Kapor

WorkBusinessVisionPeopleView

I have no concern with widening audience.

Louise Gluck

AudienceConcernWidening

Millennials are the experiences generation.

Julia Hartz

GenerationMillennialsExperiences

We're not doing brain surgery. We're not saving lives... Even if you're doing Shakespeare, it's still entertainment. We're just entertaining people. We're just doing the stuff that comes on in between the ads.

Julia Stiles

PeopleBrainDoingYouEntertainment

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