Agreed - great photo. Mind you: "If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right" sounds like a good description of correct TM practice also.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ wrote: > > > > I read his earlier books when I would find them in used book stores.  Loved them.  This link has a marvelous picture of him. > > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/books/elmore-leonard-master-of-crime-f\ iction-dies-at-87.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 > > What a great face. I would really have to re-evaluate what I had just said if he looked at me like that after saying it! > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 1:37 PM > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] "If youâre not having fun, youâre not doing it rightâ > > > > > > > >  > > That's a quote by one of the great writers of our time, > > asked once to comment on writing. It's as terse as much > > of his other writing, and as right on. It is IMO high > > wisdom, the very *essence* of great writing. > > > > Elmore Leonard was a true craftsman, an artist who, like > > Raymond Chandler before him, changed the world forever > > with his writing, and all while staying within genres > > that the intelligentsia never really considered "writing." > > > > You know his dialogue even if you've never read a single > > one of his books, from the many movies and TV shows based > > on the books (like "Justified," "Out Of Sight," "Be Cool," > > "Get Shorty," "Killshot," "3:10 To Yuma," or "Jackie Brown"), > > and from the thousands of others that tried to emulate his > > style, and failed. He will be missed. > > > > http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130820/ENT09/308200051/American-nov\ elist-Elmore-Leonard-has-died > > >
