Elmore Leonard Guy Quotations

The bad guys are the fun guys. The only people I have trouble with are the so-called normal types. Their language isn't very colorful, and they don't talk with any certain sound.

I do this a lot with names. I'll start with a name, and then for some reason he won't talk much, or he's older than I pictured him just because of a name I give him. So then I finally get the right name, and I can't shut the guy up. This always happens. There's always a character who gives me trouble that way.

I never see my bad guys as simply bad. They want pretty much the same thing that you and I want: they want to be happy.

Bad guys are not bad guys twenty-four hours a day.