I want to rotate quotes about Elmore like the one I have from Mike Lupica on the front page:

“The next best thing to reading Elmore Leonard is re-reading him.”—Mike Lupica,
New York Daily News

I’d appreciate a little help finding other great quotes.

Keep them short.

“Elmore Leonard is the hippest guy in America.”

LACrimAtty, Los Angeles - 1986—->

“An Entertainer of enormous Finesse who can write circles around almost anyone.“___The New York Times Book Review 1980

“Your prose makes Raymond Chandler look clumsy.’’

Martin Amis to Elmore at the Writers Guild Theatre, Beverly Hills, 1998.

There are a lot more good quotes out there.  Let’s find some early ones too.

“. . .Nobody I’ve ever read sets up pace, mood and sound better than Elmore Leonard. . .[He] is the greatest living writer of crime fiction.”

Barry Gifford, New York Times Book Review

“I don’t know if Elmore Leonard is a great writer, but he certainly is a damned good one.”

PEN/Faulkner award winner James Salter to me via telephone 11 April, 2001.

“OK, he’s not nostalgic. But the affection shines through like sunlight off an empty bottle of Mohawk gin.”

“Woodward Avenue: A journey through 200 years”
“Elmore Leonard’s Woodward Avenue”

Neal Rubin / The Detroit News