Scholar of the Strange and Mysterious
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Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Leaving Out What Will Be Skipped  
Not really strange or mysterious, but what the hell, it's my blog. And Elmore Leonard is just cool. See that picture? That's what I want to be when I grow up.

Here's a note for aspiring writers: The room includes none of the trophies that men of accomplishment acquire and no grip-and-grin portraits of him with the famous and infamous people he has known. There is just a picture of his agent, H. N. Swanson, who called him up after his first book and said, "Kiddo, I'm going to make you rich." Eighty-four rejections followed, but the now-departed Mr. Swanson ended up being right.

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