Leon Uris Quotes
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I've not been right for any man or myself since I met you.
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Look at me, man, look at me and tell me I don't know what I'm about. I'm Conor Larkin. I'm an Irishman and I've had enough.
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After all, the only thing that is going to save mankind is if enough people live their lives for something or someone other than themselves.
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I was tough. I used everything to my advantage. I could be very ruthless.
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I was a terrible English student.
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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.
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There is in us all that line that prevents us from fully understanding those who are different.
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Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will stand in defiance against any master. He is that one human in a thousand whose indomitable spirit will not bow. He is the one man in a thousand whose indomitable spirit cannot bow. He is the one man in a thousand who will not walk quietly to Umschlagplatz. Watch out for him, Alfred Funk, we have pushed him to the wall.
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The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after.
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A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.
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You usually dont know what you are going to write about so you go to the places and talk to the people who were identified with the events.
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Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer.
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I essentially write for myself.
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Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness and we know you're feeling downtrodden. And they said...I'll stand up for you. You're not lone anymore.
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Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love.
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You aren't a true husband/man until you've done the work of a wife/women.
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Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?
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The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.
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The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after. It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find. Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.
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On one occasion I went to Afghanistan to look at the borders and learn something about the situation there to see if my book was there and it wasnt.
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One of the cheapest commodities in the world is unfulfilled genius. All of us want to be known as a unique individual, the one who broke out of the pack. So, you offer yourself up as a sacrifice and what you’re afraid of is losing and being thrown back into the pack. One question taunts you. Do you want to have, or do you want to be?
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I do not write for an audience.
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I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a writer mad, he'll end up writing Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottantail.
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It all begins and ends in the same place, doesn't it? Conor and me in Ballyutogue. We all come home eventually.