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A snippet from what Elmore Leonard had to say at the New Yorker festival:
“I don’t write New Yorker stories. I mean, my stories are easy to understand. They have a beginning, a middle, and an end.”
Leonard — aka the Dickens of Detroit — is one of my favorite writers.
Related: his 10 rules for writing. The central guideline: “If it sounds like writing, re-write.”
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