Some thoughts and advice:
"Try to leave out the parts that people skip."
"When something sounds like writing, I rewrite it,"
“I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it … Interviewers have said, you like jazz, don’t you? Because we can hear it in your writing. And I thought that was a compliment.”
"I probably won't quit until I just quit everything — quit my life — because it's all I know how to do," he told the AP at the time. "And it's fun. I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, 'You got to have fun at this, or it'll drive you nuts.'"
Twenty-six of his 44 books have been adapted for TV series or movies, including Hombre, 3:10 to Yuma, Get Shorty, Be Cool, Out Of Sight and the TV series Justified.
R.I.P.
1925- 2013