Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose. Elmore Leonard More Quotes by Elmore Leonard More Quotes From Elmore Leonard When people ask me about my dialogue, I say, 'Don't you hear people talking?' That's all I do. I hear a certain type of individual, I decide this is what he should be, whatever it is, and then I hear him. Well, I don't hear anybody that I can't make talk. Elmore Leonard me you talking people
