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I don’t believe in writer’s block or waiting for inspiration. If you’re a writer, you sit down and write.

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Elmore Leonard

Writing on the beach is not what it’s cracked up to be. The sand blows, and you perspire, and the page gets all blotty and messed up, so I don’t do that anymore.

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Elmore Leonard

I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that’s from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M.

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To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.

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I don’t get in a position to be frightened. I don’t do anything dangerous, and I always pay my bills.

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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.

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Elmore Leonard

There are 500 million people on Facebook, but what are they saying to each other? Not much.

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Elmore Leonard

I don’t have any of the modern electronics at all. I know the Internet would be a distraction. I would see things that interested me and never get back to writing.

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I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, ‘You got to have fun at this, or it’ll drive you nuts.’

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Elmore Leonard

Writing screenplays is not my business. I’ve written half a dozen, and maybe half of those were made. But it was never a satisfying experience. It was just work. You’re an employee. You would be told what to do. Studio execs would cross out my dialogue and put in their dialogue.

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Elmore Leonard

My characters have to talk, or they’re out. They audition in early scenes. If they can’t talk, they’re given less to do, or thrown out.

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Elmore Leonard

I never see my bad guys as simply bad. They want pretty much the same thing that you and I want: they want to be happy.

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