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Hollywood deals.
This is a fair enough questionand the answer isperhaps
not. Yet the dialogue doesring true to our ear; at his best (and
although Be Coolis quite entertainingit is far from Leonard’s
best)Elmore Leonard is capable of a kind of street poetry.
The skill necessary to write such dialogue comes from years
of practice; the art comes from a creative imagination which
is working hard and having fun.
As with all other aspects of ?ctionthe key to writing good
dialogue is honesty. And if you arehonest about the words
coming out of your characters’ mouthsyou’ll ?nd that
you’ve let yourself in for a fair amount of criticism. Not a
week goes by that I don’t receive at least one pissed-off letter
(most weeks there are more) accusing me of being foul-
mouthedbigotedhomophobicmurderousfrivolousor
downright psychopathic. In the majority of cases what my
correspondents are hot under the collar about relates to
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something in the dialogue: “Let’s get the fuck out of Dodge”
or “We don’t cotton much to niggers around here” or “What
do you think you’re doingyou fucking faggot?”
My motherGod rest herdidn’t approve of profanity or
any such talk; she called it “the language of the ignorant.”
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