"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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Source : "Elmore Leonard's Secret: 'Clean Living, and a Fast Outfield'". Interview with Jon Wiener, lareviewofbooks.org. August 20, 2013.

Elmore Leonard

#Character Quotes #Auditions Quotes #Scene Quotes

“Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.”
“Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic.”
“If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.”

Source : Paul Bowles (2016). “Their Heads Are Green And Their Hands Are Blue”, p.5, Pickle Partners Publishing
“If there is hope, it lies in the proles.”
“Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15.”
“As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.”

Source : Speech to London Conservatives, 7 Mar. 1961, in The Times 8 Mar. 1961
“Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought was necessary to protect us from further harm.”
“Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.”

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