My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.
"Elmore John Leonard, Jr." was an American novelist and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Western fiction/Westerns, but Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures.
Among his best-known works are Get Shorty, Out of Sight (novel)/Out of Sight, Hombre (novel)/Hombre, Mr. Majestyk, and Rum Punch (adapted for the movie Jackie Brown (film)/Jackie Brown). Leonard's writings include short stories that became the films Three-Ten to Yuma/3:10 to Yuma and The Tall T, as well as the FX (network)/FX television series Justified (TV series)/Justified.
More Elmore Leonard on Wikipedia.I try to leave out the parts that people skip.
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
[Of course,] Pagan Babies ... Detroit, for some reason, is not big on good Italian restaurants.
Leave out the parts everyone skips.
Tell them I'm not old enough.
Comfort to the Enemy.
That was the book.
The movie, when I saw it in New York, I said, 'This is the second-worst movie ever made,' ... And the woman in front of me said to her husband, or her date, 'This is the worst movie I've ever seen .' And the three of us got up and left.
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