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Article: Elmore Leonard's biggest secret? `I keep my nose out of it and let the characters talk'.
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Article date:
- February 4, 2004
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Byline: Chauncey Mabe
At a time when he was not much older than Elmore Leonard is now, the late British novelist Graham Greene lamented to an interviewer that while he still loved to write, he no longer had the stamina to spend all day at the typewriter the way he did at 35.
By contrast, Leonard, who is 78 and in his 52nd year as a published author, still sits down at 9:30 in the morning and writes in longhand, as he has always done, for eight hours, producing five pages of sizzling crime fiction a day. He maintains the same book-a-year pace he established in the mid-1960s, when he left the advertising business to write full time.
"I'm so ...
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Transcript: Profile: Film adaptations of Elmore Leonard's ...
NPR Morning Edition;
February 3, 2004 ;
700+ words
... ... 2004 Profile: Film adaptations of Elmore Leonard's books Host: BOB EDWARDS Time ... EDWARDS, host: The characters in an Elmore Leonard novel try to get away with everything ... Big Bounce" is just one of the many Elmore Leonard stories that Hollywood has adapted ...
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