“I get letters. I get several a week, I think. A lot of people want a p...” — Elmore Leonard Quote

“I get letters. I get several a week, I think. A lot of people want a picture, a lot of people just want an autograph.”

“I'm not aware of a cadence when writing, but I hear it after. I write in longhand, and that helps. You're closer to it, and you have to cross things out. You put a line through it, but it's still there. You might need it. When you erase a line on a computer, it's gone forever.”

“I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you think that perhaps could become your sound, too. I did that with Hemingway, and I thought I was writing just like Hemingway. Then all of a sudden it occurred to me - he didn't have a sense of humor. I don't know anything he's written that's funny.”

“People don't ask me for my autograph.”

“When I was growing up, I loved Edie Sedgwick - and then Twiggy, I was obsessed with Twiggy. When I was 14, I actually wrote her a letter and she sent me a signed autograph.”

“I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why.”