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Go Quotes by Elmore Leonard
- If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what…
- Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue... I once noticed Mary McCarthy ending a line of dialogue with "she asseverated" and had…
- I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.
- Don't go into great detail describing places and things, unless you're Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language. You don't want descriptions that bring…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. — Richard Armour
- Moshing and broken glass just don't go together. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym. — Lance Armstrong
- The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further… — Neil Armstrong