Book Quote by Elmore Leonard Download Open image “I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.” — Elmore Leonard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Going Know Mystery Never Reader Want
If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for the potential mystery in everything; I can't imagine writing about anything else. — Tana French Copy Share Image
There is nothing better than a really cool mystery: you don't know what's going to happen, so you keep turning those pages or watching… — Alexandra Daddario Copy Share Image
It's an important moment as a reader, I think, when you can forget the question of whether you need to know what happened. Some… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun. — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
Typically, I have a fairly good grip on the plot of a suspense novel before I set about writing it. I must know beforehand… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always… — D. J. MacHale Copy Share Image
Judging by the volume of titles published each year, mystery readers are restless in their pursuit of literary escape. They might travel to far-flung… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex,… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“I wanna know something,” Lexi said. “In mystery books, clues come flying out of nowhere in every single chapter. Why is ours so slow?”… — Vila Gingerich 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
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
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
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
