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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