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I admire writers such as Elmore Leonard who can nail a character in three or four lines of dialogue, so he doesn't need pages of back story or clumsy exposition.

Mark Billingham

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Ich bewundere Schriftsteller wie Elmore Leonard, die einen Charakter in drei oder vier Dialogzeilen festnageln können, so dass er keine Seiten mit Hintergrundgeschichten oder plumpen Darstellungen braucht.

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