"I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories."

-- Elmore Leonard

#Writing Quotes #Stories Quotes #Sense Of Humor Quotes

“Perhaps that is because you mistake death for justice, and they are not the same thing at all.”
“I'm tired now of the elections.”
“I was about seven years old. In my mother's garage I used to create plays and star in them and charge the neighborhood kids five cents to see them. It was a lot of fun.”
“The morals of men are more governed by their pursuits than by their opinions. A type of virtue is first formed by circumstances, and men afterwards make it the model upon which their theories are framed.”

Source : William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1809). “History of European morals from Augustus to Charlemagne”, p.158
“I'm not a salsa singer who wants to sing in English, and I'm not this American kid who wants to sing Spanish.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.”
“I usually set aside a lot of time in advance of a movie with important roles for kids to search, but when you have great ones, they can be a real ace in the hole.”
“People going from Southern Italy to the North say that they feel cold not only for the different climate, but for the less "warm" approach in relationships.”

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