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Elmore Leonard has 62 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I…
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Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or…
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At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know…
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I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.
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Avoid Prologues. They can be annoying, especially a prologue following an introduction that comes after a foreword.
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I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll…
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My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
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What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.
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After 58 years you'd think writing would get easier. It doesn't. If you're lucky, you become harder to please. That's all right,…
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The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.
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Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
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I don't want the reader to be aware of me as the writer.
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Popular Electronic Devices quotes from across the collection:
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I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.
— Gerry Mulligan
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No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make…
— Matt Chandler
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As our various electronic devices gain more and more sensory awareness, we open up the potential for entirely new forms of interaction.…
— Jamais Cascio
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To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you.…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing.
— Dick Cavett
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To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.
— Elmore Leonard
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Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a…
— Marilyn vos Savant
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Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from…
— Julian Barnes
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We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that…
— Chico Hamilton
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