Elmore Leonard's Quotes

I get letters. I get several a week, I think. A lot of people want a picture, a lot of people just want an autograph.

I try to leave out the parts readers skip.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. I can't believe it when writers tell me 'I don't want to show my work to anybody'.

There are some people who have been reading me for years, and they keep saying kind things about the writing. That's what you're writing for, to get people to respond to it.