Leon Uris Quotes

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• The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.
• The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a Trappist monk, the…
• Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
• 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…
• Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said,…
• 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…
• It all begins and ends in the same place, doesn't it? Conor and me in Ballyutogue. We all come home eventually.
• There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt me! Ronan! Kilty!…
• You aren't a true husband/man until you've done the work of a wife/women
• 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.
• 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…
• To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make.
• 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…
• Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.
• My greatest accomplishment is Exodus. It changed a lot of peoples lives, it changed the conception of the Jewish people in the international scene.
• 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…
• 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.
• My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.
• 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…
• 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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