Leon Uris Quotes
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My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.
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To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make.
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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.
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I've not been right for any man or myself since I met you.
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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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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.
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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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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 too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.
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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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I essentially write for myself.
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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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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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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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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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Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.
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I do not write for an audience.
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The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.
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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.