“I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buc...” — Elmore Leonard Quote

“I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.”

“I don't get in a position to be frightened. I don't do anything dangerous, and I always pay my bills.”

“When I get an idea for a book, something appeals to me, it's usually a character. I'll see a picture of a female marshal in front of the courthouse in Miami and she's got a shotgun on her hip and it goes up on an angle. And she's good-looking. And I say, 'I've got to use her.'”

“I guess there's a part of me that loves institutionalism. And borstal is tailor-made for you to buck against. It was perfect.”

“I had never been much of a science-fiction or Buck Rogers fan. I was more interested in what was going on right now than in the centuries to come.”

“Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!”