“If I just sit here, what am I going to do? I don't have a trade. I don...” — Elmore Leonard Quote

“If I just sit here, what am I going to do? I don't have a trade. I don't teach or anything. I just love to make up characters and gradually build a story around them.”

“It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the keys. I'm doing action stories, so that's the way I like to do it.”

“I have fun writing. I don't make it a chore. I don't have to struggle with it.”

“I am pretty bad at doing my makeup myself, so these days, I am learning from a makeup artist. I treat my face as a sketchbook and am gradually trying things that I learned from the artist.”

“When I gradually realized the emotion behind it, I began playing cricket in our neighborhood, which I think everyone has.”

“America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.”