This is a quick post script to an article I wrote last week about really long and well written sentences. (You can find it HERE) If you’re a writer, you gotta love this.
“The chauffeurs were not watching with purpose, though they were looking out of darkness toward the source of the music, across flower beds and shrubbery to the club patio strung with paper lanterns where ladies in long skirts danced with men in blazers and pastel trousers to medleys of show tunes: some barely moving, some moving as though they were following footprints, some of the ladies discoing with studied abandon while their men, with glazed expressions, glasses reflecting the lantern glow, hunched their shoulders and sometimes snapped their fingers.” — Elmore Leonard from the novel Stick
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Another beauty!
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I like it. Of course, I think Andrew and Elmore Leonard are terrific.
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I don’t know what Elmore (Dutch) thought about you, but you’re all right in my book, John.
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I took a class he was teaching, and he didn’t know me from Adam.
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You ever read his book “Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing?” It’s a hoot. You can find it online for free. It’s only ten pages long, not counting front and back matter.
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I have read it. It was the basis for his class.
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That is a good one! Not many could pull it off like he did.
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I know. What a great writer he was.
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