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Elmore Leonard
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My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip
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Psychopaths... people who know the differences between right and wrong, but don't give a shit. That's what most of my characters are like
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I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative
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But he could never be a made guy himself because of his tainted blood, some Sunset Park Puerto Rican on his father's side, even though he was raised Italian. Chili didn't care to be made anyway, get into all that bullshit having to do with respect. It was bad enough having to treat these guys like they were your heroes, smile when they made some stupid remark they thought was funny
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