Elmore Leonard Quotes

I never considered writing as a career - it was always a creative outlet for me and something I just loved to do.

The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing's fun. You're getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.

I get a great high from writing.

I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.

There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.

I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.

What I enjoy as entertainment is what I enjoy writing.

I write the books to amuse myself.

I write because I actually enjoy writing. It's a plus and a fringe benefit that, you know, I can actually provide for my family and, you know, a few people know my name - that's great.

I write because I love doing it.

The first person you should think of pleasing, in writing a book, is yourself. If you can amuse yourself for the length of time it takes to write a book, the publisher and the readers can and will come later.

I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

I loved the process of writing.

I've always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it.

I enjoy the research and love actually creating the words. There's not too much I find a drudge when it comes to writing.

If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write.

I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell me what kind of academic papers to write anymore. I could write whatever I wanted, and I realized that I actually liked it when I could choose what I would write.

I don't usually think of my writing as a 'challenge' because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid 'writer's block' all these years.

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.

I make music because I like making music.

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.