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Poetry will die when love and pain cease to exist.
— Kellie Elmore
The happiest people I know live lives that revolve around serving others, not themselves.
— Tim Elmore
You were given your gift for the joy you may give in return.
— Cornelius Elmore Addison
I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.
— Elmore Leonard
My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.
— Elmore Leonard
He called out to no one in particular, Fire in the Hole!
— Elmore Leonard
Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.
— Elmore Leonard
I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, 'You got to have fun at this, or it'll drive you nuts.'
— Elmore Leonard
I don't judge in my books. I don't have to have the antagonist get shot or the protagonist win. It's just how it comes out. I'm just telling a story.
— Elmore Leonard
Don't interrupt a man when he's giving himself hell.
— Elmore Leonard
If we change our thoughts from 'it's too late' to, 'there's still hope', we might see some change in the world.
— Kellie Elmore
I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.
— Elmore Leonard
Quiet and calculating. He hasn't changed that much since. Always mild-mannered, the nice guy - until someone steps over the line and challenges him.
— Elmore Leonard
Puttin' on a cowboy hat & a pair of boots doesn't make you country; Like puttin' on a ball gown & glass heels won't make me Cinderella.
— Kellie Elmore
A wife's faithful to her husband, subject to him. It's in the bible.
— Elmore Leonard
I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.
— Quentin Tarantino
Skip the boring parts.
— Elmore Leonard
I try to leave out the parts readers skip.
— Elmore Leonard
You never know what somebody might tell you,' Chris said, 'when they think you're somebody else.
— Elmore Leonard
Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
— Elmore Leonard
I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that's from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M.
— Elmore Leonard
What is grander than a country and more valuable than gold? Strength of heart.
— Cornelius Elmore Addison
My characters have to talk, or they're out. They audition in early scenes. If they can't talk, they're given less to do, or thrown out.
— Elmore Leonard
And should I die in her care, I would leave smiling because, I will linger in the hills beside her ...
— Kellie Elmore
It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.
— Elmore Leonard
It's summer and time for wandering...
— Kellie Elmore
All over the world ... the past was being wiped out by condominiums.
— Elmore Leonard
Not dreams but night changes, not destiny but path changes, always keep your hopes alive, luck may or may not change, but time definitely chages.
— Elmore Leonard
I've learned if you're ever angry enough to hit somebody, don't do it. Cool down and get yourself a pistol.
— Elmore Leonard
My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.
— Elmore Leonard
A: Anyone who looks like she does has to be somebody ... B: What does she look like?
A: An ice cream. I had a spoon I would have eaten her. — Elmore Leonard
The personality and the ego scream, while the soul whispers.
— Elmore Leonard
I am but a firefly caught in his jar and when he looks at me, I can't help but glow.
— Kellie Elmore
A pen connects you to the paper. It definitely matters.
— Elmore Leonard
To me, writing is the most fun. It's not always fun, but finally when you make it come out the way you want, it's then you can say, 'It's fun, boy.'
— Elmore Leonard
Write the book the way it should be written, then give it to somebody to put in the commas and shit.
— Elmore Leonard
Sometimes you have to put yourself in other people's shoes to really understand the hardships of their souls.
— Kellie Elmore
If you're going to spend your life standing on principle, you want to be sure everyone understands what the principle is.
— Elmore Leonard
The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off.
— Kellie Elmore
Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.
— Kellie Elmore
Using adverbs is a mortal sin.
— Elmore Leonard
She said very quietly, "Mitch?" "What?" "There's somebody downstairs." "I know there is.
— Elmore Leonard
Tony was a lawyer, so you had to accept the fact he was opinionated and full of shit.
— Elmore Leonard
Dreams are humans wings.
— Kellie Elmore
That dip in the road- that sends your belly to your throat ... that's how it feels when you kiss me.
— Kellie Elmore
I don't think writers compete, I think they're all doing separate things in their own style.
— Elmore Leonard
How mighty you are as death comes upon you and your color fades. Yet from life and lush to bold array, screaming into the night.
— Kellie Elmore
If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what our wings are for
— Michael Elmore-Meegan
She wondered what he looked like with his hat off and wondered again if he knew he was funny.
— Elmore Leonard
Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.
— Elmore Leonard
Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.
— Elmore Leonard
Do you want me to tell you what I give a shit about at age sixty-five', Cullen said, 'and what I don't give a shit about?'(page 262) — Elmore Leonard
Sacrifices made for love are fine, unless the sacrifice is you.
— Kellie Elmore
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite.
— Elmore Leonard
There's something happening here, I know it. It's right in front of my face, but I just can't see it.
— Elmore Leonard
All the information you need can be given in dialogue.
— Elmore Leonard
Oh, those warm days of stumbling words; blinded eyes, embracing in sweet slow dances and sipping courage from a bottle for sneaking kisses.
— Kellie Elmore
Winter is much like unrequited love; cold and merciless.
— Kellie Elmore
Never use the words 'suddenly' or 'all hell broke loose.'
— Elmore Leonard
I left advertising as fast as I could in 1961. And I haven't ever thought about going back.
— Elmore Leonard
It is noble to love another without caring to know who gave them breath.
— Cornelius Elmore Addison
I don't want the reader to be aware of me as the writer.
— Elmore Leonard
There's nothing like work to take your mind off your worries.
— Elmore Leonard
Don't worry about what your mother thinks of your language.
— Elmore Leonard
Forward, towards the danger!
— Phil Elmore
Try not to write the parts that people skip.
— Elmore Leonard
I don't have any of the modern stuff. I don't have e-mail. I don't have a computer!
— Elmore Leonard
I got halfway through 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.' I don't get it at all. What's the big thrill? It's boring.
— Elmore Leonard
Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.
— Elmore Leonard
There are 500 million people on Facebook, but what are they saying to each other? Not much.
— Elmore Leonard
Resting on the roots of this old oak I lean back against his knotted trunk, shine my granny smith on my sleeve And ponder the days ...
— Kellie Elmore
"Wonderful things can happen", Vincent said, "when you plant seeds of distrust in a garden of assholes."
— Elmore Leonard
The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.
— Elmore Leonard
I thought I explained it to you. Boyd and I dug coal together.
— Elmore Leonard
Serve no one with your gift, but all.
— Cornelius Elmore Addison
To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.
— Elmore Leonard
There were a lot of terms you had to learn, as opposed to the shylock business where all you had to know how to say was 'Give me the fuckin money.
— Elmore Leonard
I firmly disbelieve in death. A spirit never dies. Where it wanders when it leaves the flesh, is a cognitive proposition.
— Kellie Elmore
