Elmore leonard

"My most important rule is one that sums up the 10. If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it." The legendary author passed away today at the age of 87. The following is from Leonard's New York Times piece "Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle."

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Elmore Leonard, the acclaimed crime novelist and screenwriter behind books like "Get Shorty" and "Out of Sight" that became hit movies, died on Tuesday morning at 87, according to his official website. Specializing in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, Leonard also wrote short stories, one of which was turned into the FX TV series "Justified." Twenty of his works were adapted into films, highli

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Few writers are as alive to the sound of human speech as Elmore Leonard. To open one of his novels is to be plunged at once into an arena of crisscrossing voices. His characters talk, and rarely stop talking, for every imaginable reason: to seduce, to amuse, to threaten, to deceive, or simply to pass the time while waiting for a scam to unfold or a violent scheme to be unleashed. He started as a writer of pulp Western stories and ended as the most admired crime novelist of his time, but…

"My most important rule is one that sums up the 10. If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it." The legendary author passed away today at the age of 87. The following is from Leonard's New York Times piece "Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle."

From small-town New Mexico to a military base in Kuala Lumpur, publisher promises 'razor-sharp dialogue and headlong pacing'

The novelist had been ailing.