The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard Quotes

“The Sierra Madre was like the sea, he thought. Both of them deathless, monotonously eternal, and so indifferent in their magnitude that either could accept the dust of all the world’s dead and not have the decency to show it in posture.”
― Elmore Leonard, The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard

“rejected. I decided I’d better do some research. I read On the Border with Crook, The Truth about Geronimo, The Look of the West, and Western Words, and I subscribed to Arizona Highways. It had stories about guns—I insisted on authentic guns in my stories—stagecoach lines, specific looks at different little facets of the West, plus all the four-color shots that I could use for my descriptions, things I could put in and sound like I knew what I was talking about.” He distilled all”
― Elmore Leonard, The Complete Western Stories

“Sometimes the fear was stronger than the anger. The plain was silent and in its darkness there was nothing to hold to.”
― Elmore Leonard, The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard

“Time lost its meaning after a while and became only something that dragged hope with it as it went nowhere. Sometime”
― Elmore Leonard, The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard