Leon Uris Quotes
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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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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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Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it.
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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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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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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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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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All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.
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I essentially write for myself.
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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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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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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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The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.
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To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at his post in the thick of fire to serve the cause of mankind.
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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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I've not been right for any man or myself since I met you.
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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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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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Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?
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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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I do not write for an audience.
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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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Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.