Happy-playgrounds Quote by Elmore Leonard Download Open image ““all over the world...the past was being wiped out by condominiums.”” — Elmore Leonard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Happy-playgrounds Time
“Even though I had a history with that house, it didn't matter. You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“So much history buried underneath. We spend our lives to try to dig it out, but always the present buries it again.” — Tom Harper Copy Share Image
“...the townhouses looked bedraggled, unkempt, like an old homeless woman with an interesting history but a perilous future.” — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
“Since all the property is undamaged, has the world lost anything it loved?” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“The past is as important as the future, but we only live in the here and now.” — David Millar Copy Share Image
“Try to see the past as a room separate from the one you live in now. You can go in there, but you don’t… — Richard Templar Copy Share Image
“I live in the past. I take everything that has happened to me and arrange it. From a distance like that, it doesn't do any harm, you'd almost let yourself be caught in it. Our whole story is fairly beautiful. I give it a few prods and it makes a whole string of perfect moments. Then I close my eyes… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
“Sometimes I think it is my fate to live in the wreckage and confusion of crumbling houses.” — Abdulrazak Gurnah Copy Share Image
“Buildings are not very good at remembering the people who once occupied them.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I have fun writing. I don't make it a chore. I don't have to struggle with it. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
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… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
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, it's still… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“He saw Harvey and Edgar catch each other's eye as he looked off toward the strains of "Alley Cat," Jesus, hoping they'd rush it… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“A wife's faithful to her husband, subject to him. It's in the bible.” — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“the zombies, after all, were pretty slow to appreciate someone other than themselves, and they had been schooled not to denigrate the different. --Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men” — padgett powell Copy Share
“don't start talkin about books or quotin poems at them. these is good folks but they ain't real crazy about readin books. just do… — William Gay Copy Share Image
“i ain't got the energy to argue. i'm an old man and i got to take a shit.” — Johnny Shaw Copy Share Image
“A wife's faithful to her husband, subject to him. It's in the bible.” — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“inside the coop where he'll stay until he's killed, the rooster sings anthems to liberty because he was given two roosts.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“everybody he knew was going quietly mad from being tied on a leash that was too short.” — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
“i know at last what i want to be when i grow up. when i grow up i want to be a little boy.” — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“the thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read.” — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
