Elmore Leonard Quotes
I don't have any of the modern electronics at all. I know the Internet would be a distraction. I would see things that interested me and never get back to writing.
Elmore Leonard
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
Edmund White
I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
Inbee Park
I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
Rachel McAdams
People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
Kate Upton
Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
Gary Wolf
Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.
Faith Hunter
I never thought of myself as a Surrealist. I didn't think of myself as anything. I try not to. We all have these egos.
Leonora Carrington
Every single one of us already has everything we need to be the happiest person on earth; it's simply up to us to remember that in every moment.
Hal Elrod
It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.
Kris Allen
I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.
P. J. O'Rourke
a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that moment, an act just as absurd as winding up one’s watch, since together with the man, the whole world is destroyed; the last letter is instantly reduced to dust and, with it, all the postmen; and like smoke, vanishes the estate bequeathed to a nonexistent progeny.
Vladimir Nabokov
I don't have any of the modern electronics at all. I know the Internet would be a distraction. I would see things that interested me and never get back to writing.
Elmore Leonard
