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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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Keith Gillespie just lacks a little bit of inconsistency.
— Graeme Le Saux
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I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began…
— John Coltrane
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Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker,…
— John Lewis
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I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic…
— Charles Mingus
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Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk…
— Jack Kerouac
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
— Ed Gillespie
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There is a gesture he has, a motion, that always reminds me of a great batter leaning into a hit. He has…
— Gene Lees
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I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.
— Elmore Leonard
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I had a cat called Dizz, after Dizzy Gillespie.
— Andy Serkis
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The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.
— Bill Wyman
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