172 Quotes by Elmore Leonard

Avoid Prologues. They can be annoying, especially a prologue following an introduction that comes after a foreword.

It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.

all over the world...the past was being wiped out by condominiums.

when you're really cute that's all you have to be, you make a career out of it. someone asks you what you do, you say, 'nothing. i'm cute.

A wife's faithful to her husband, subject to him. It's in the bible.

You thinkin bout the time I shot you and you rose from the dead? It only happens once in your life." He turned to Carol again and she said:"Were you actually aiming at his hat?""I hit it didn't I?

She wondered what he looked like with his hat off and wondered again if he knew he was funny.

I thought I explained it to you. Boyd and I dug coal together.

She said, "Coming across the yard you had your hat off, but as you reached the door you put it on." "I guess I did, didn't I?" "You were being...I want to say official, and your hat's like a badge of office. You like to set it forward a little, close over your eyes." "I've had that hat eight years," Raylan said. "I never thought I wore it any special way, I just put it on my head.