Leon Uris Quotes
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I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.
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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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I was a terrible English student.
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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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A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be a winning marathon runner. Serendipity and blind faith faith in yourself won't hurt a thing. All the bastards in the world will snicker and sneer because they haven't the talent to zip up their flies by themselves. To hell with them, particularly the critics. Stand in there, son, no matter how badly you are battered and hurt.
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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've not been right for any man or myself since I met you.
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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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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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I essentially write for myself.
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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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There is in us all that line that prevents us from fully understanding those who are different.
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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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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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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 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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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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You can lie to your wife or your boss, but you cannot lie to your typewriter. Sooner or later you must reveal your true self in your pages.