There are some people who have been reading me for years, and they keep saying kind things about … - Elmore Leonard

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The case against vivisection is the same as that against war and all other forms of cruelty - that violence does not produce long-term solutions.

Elmore Leonard

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.

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I always felt, you don’t have a good time doin crime, you may as well find a job.

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I focus on characters as individuals with attitudes and write each scene from a particular character's point of view. That way, even narrative passages take on the character's sound. I don't want the reader to be aware of me, writing.

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I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.

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My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.

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I've quit writing screenplay [adaptations]. It's too much work. I don't look at writing a novel as work, because I only have to please myself. I have a good time sitting here by myself, thinking up situations and characters, getting them to talk - it's so satisfying. But screenwriting's different. You might think you're writing for yourself, but there are too many other people to please.

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Pat Buchanan

Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U. S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony?

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Joseph Stiglitz

This Iraq war has been the most "privatized" war in America's history. It has seen the most extensive use of contractors. The contractors have increased the costs; but they have been necessary - the military simply could not have done it on their own. we would have had to increase the size of the military. But the George W. Bush Administration wanted America to believe that it could have a war, essentially for free, without raising taxes, without increasing the size of the armed forces.

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Billy Eckstine

When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.

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Jon Wynne-Tyson

The case against vivisection is the same as that against war and all other forms of cruelty - that violence does not produce long-term solutions.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with oneself is all important.

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