According to New York publishers, Bill Clinton will get more money for his book than Hillary Clinton got for hers. Well, duh. At least his book has... →
Jay Leno
The character I created, 'Commissario Brunetti,' who appears in all my books, shares similar reading, artistic and musical tastes with me.... →
Donna Leon
I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow there was an... →
I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are... →
I was extraordinarily lucky. I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery. Someone nagged me into sending it to a contest, which... →
Never open a book with weather. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ways to describe ice and snow than an Eskimo, you... →
Elmore Leonard
Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.
To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.
I never know what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and I begin to think of what I'd... →
Sometimes female characters start out as the wife or girlfriend, but then I realize, 'No, she's the book,' and she becomes a main... →