"I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, 'You got to have fun at this, or it'll drive you nuts.'"

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Source : "The Most Important Writing Tip the Late Elmore Leonard Ever Gave" by Asawin Suebsaeng, www.motherjones.com. August 20, 2013.

Elmore Leonard

#Fun Quotes #Writing Quotes #Nuts Quotes

“I'ma make you feel like a virgin again.”
“Rule number three: Best friends always think you deserve the best guy even if the best guy barely knows you exist.”
“The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.”
“I think the act of lying can be separated from the genre of memoir. Though often times, people are unaware of their own subjectivity.”
“what might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form of self-expression ...”
“Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old friends coal and oil if we burned them gradually, but how long can it withstand a blaze of consumption so frenzied that the dark size of this planet glows like a fanned ember in the night of space.”

Source : Ronald Wright (2010). “A Short History Of Progress”, p.7, Canongate Books
“Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.”
“I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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