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Subject: Writing advice

dialyn opened this issue on Feb 25, 2003 · 1 posts
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dialyn ( ) posted Tue, 25 February 2003 at 10:51 PM · edited Sun, 04 August 2024 at 12:43 AM

Elmore Leonard, author of detective thrillers, was asked how he managed to keep the action in his books moving so quickly. He said, "I try to leave out the parts that readers tend to skip." From Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes (via Reader's Digest)

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