Leon Uris

American author (1924-2003)

Leon Marcus Uriswas an American author of historical fiction who wrote many bestselling books, including Exodusand Trinity (published in 1976).

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About the Leon Uris

Leon Marcus Uriswas an American author of historical fiction who wrote many bestselling books, including Exodusand Trinity (published in 1976).

17 Quotes by Leon Uris

  1. 1.

    Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it.

    Leon Uris

    American author (1924-2003)

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    Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.

    Leon Uris

    American author (1924-2003)

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    I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish.

    Leon Uris

    American author (1924-2003)

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    Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.

    Leon Uris

    American author (1924-2003)

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    You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.

    Leon Uris

    American author (1924-2003)

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    English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can’t buy it no one puts it there you’re born with it.

    Leon Uris

    American author (1924-2003)

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    I essentially write for myself.

    Leon Uris

    American author (1924-2003)

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    I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.

    Leon Uris

    American author (1924-2003)

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    I do not write for an audience.

    Leon Uris

    American author (1924-2003)

  10. 10.

    Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

    Leon Uris

    American author (1924-2003)

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    My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

    Leon Uris

    American author (1924-2003)

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    I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.

    Leon Uris

    American author (1924-2003)

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    I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.

    Leon Uris

    American author (1924-2003)

  14. 14.

    It is extremely important to know what you don’t want to find.

    Leon Uris

    American author (1924-2003)

  15. 15.

    I was a terrible English student.

    Leon Uris

    American author (1924-2003)

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    I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.

    Leon Uris

    American author (1924-2003)

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    So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain… and retain.

    Leon Uris

    American author (1924-2003)