"I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books."

-- Elmore Leonard

#Book Quotes #Want Quotes #Mystery Quotes

“I can't get excited by my own music. It's impossible.”
“A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.”

Source : Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.49
“What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've never heard the shriek of a wounded animal.”

Source : John L'Heureux (2002). “An Honorable Profession”, p.17, Grove Press
“You have to remember one life, one deathâ€“this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires only a moment, this moment. And along with it all the mindfulness we can muster, and each stage of our ongoing birth, and the confident joy of our inherent luminosity. (24)”
“The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.”
“Of course a certain number of scientists have to go mad, just to keep the tradition alive.”
“Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside.”
“Are all American girls as daft as you, Rachel?" "I hope so," I said.”

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