>>He was as good as the game.
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>>Thanks, Mr. Leonard.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/books/elmore-leonard-master-of-crime-fiction-dies-at-87.html?pagewanted=all>
>Major, major bummer. He had great plots, many of which were turned into movies. Above all, nobody wrote dialogue like Elmore Leonard.
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>Be sure to click the hyperlink in the obit to his 10 rules of writing.
I bought 10 rules of writing as soon as it came out.
Aspiring writers should also read "Writing the Novel - from Plot to Print" by Lawrence Block - a writer who is in that group with Westlake, Thomas, Perry, Deighton and Leonard as "writers' writers"
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
