Books Quote by Elmore Leonard Download Open image “I try to leave out the parts readers skip.” — Elmore Leonard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Leave Out Parts Reader Readers Skip Try Trying
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 Copy Share Image
You can't just skip the boring parts." "Of course I can skip the boring parts." "How do you know they're boring if you don't… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
“Reading requires actual concentration . If you skipped a paragraph, or even an important sentence, you could lose the entire story. With most TV… — Daniel Ehrenhaft Copy Share Image
I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Usually when I read something, first of all I'm looking for the story and then when I reread it, I'm sort of checking every… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
Sometimes people won't even finish a piece that you wrote, because they've already decided what it is that you want to say, and generally… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
One can only continue to expect to be read if one omits everything that is unimportant. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Never read a book to the end, nor even in sequence and without skipping. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The presentation scene itself we skip. It is not a good idea to interrupt the narrative too often, since storytelling works by lulling the… — J. M. Coetzee 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
