Cool interview with Elmore Leonard, author of "Get Shorty," "Be Cool," and many others.
"I usually start with an image. For this book, I had this picture of the diver, a guy who lives on the edge. I thought that would make an interesting character. Out Of Sight started when I saw a picture of a female federal agent outside a Florida courthouse with a gun on her hip. I don't know what my books are going to be about until I'm at least 100 pages into them. I never know how it's going to end."
(Thanks, Amanda!)