My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: if it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
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Elmore Leonard
Novelist and screenwriter
United States · 1925–2013
American novelist who wrote westerns and then crime fiction, including Get Shorty, Out of Sight and Rum Punch. His 10 Rules of Writing, first published in the New York Times, prompted the Guardian's survey of other authors' rules.
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