Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane. — Leon Uris Insane Copy Share Image
My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953. — Leon Uris Battle Copy Share Image
“Like so many creative men of his school he was hounded by an incessant restlessness.” — Leon Uris Creativity Copy Share Image
Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies. — Leon Uris Enemies Copy Share Image
Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about. — Leon Uris Break Copy Share Image
English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you… — Leon Uris Ability Copy Share Image
You can lie to your wife or your boss, but you cannot lie to your typewriter. Sooner or later you must reveal… — Leon Uris Boss Copy Share Image
I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things… — Leon Uris Being crazy Copy Share Image
A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter.… — Leon Uris Chapters Copy Share Image
After all, the only thing that is going to save mankind is if enough people live their lives for something or someone… — Leon Uris Enough Copy Share Image
In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms… — Leon Uris Arms Copy Share Image
Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home… — Leon Uris Hands Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of… — Leon Uris Agony Copy Share Image
“But once you allow yourself to think that there are some people, because of their race, their color, or religion, who are… — Leon Uris Humiliation Copy Share Image
“God figured out when he separated us from the rest of the creatures that if we have the power to reason and… — Leon Uris Big mistake Copy Share Image
“And that is where I have failed you, Ari. You see, I would have crawled to your mother a million times. I… — Leon Uris God help Copy Share Image
There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt… — Leon Uris Blight Copy Share Image
Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my… — Leon Uris Brother Copy Share Image
Life hinges on many factors we cannot control. Two of the most important factors, we can control. We can manage our relationships-and… — Leon Uris Earth Copy Share Image
“I never got over the horror of watching their graduation ceremonies, performed before their parents. After a demonstration of ‘military prowess’ and… — Leon Uris Graduation Copy Share Image
“Karen Hansen Clement sank deep in melancholy. She heard till she could hear no more. She saw until she could see no… — Leon Uris Heart Copy Share Image
The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a… — Leon Uris Ability Copy Share Image
“Mirror, Standard, Telegraph, Birmingham Post, Sketch, all careful to report accurately the events without editorial comment. Unlike some countries, the British press… — Leon Uris Journalism Copy Share Image
“Huxley: "Tell me something Bryce, do you know the difference between a Jersey, a Guernsey, a Holstein, and an Ayershire?" Bryce: "No."… — Leon Uris Ancient greek Copy Share Image
“In God's scheme what is a few billion years here and there. Perhaps there have come and gone a dozen human civilizations… — Leon Uris Human civilization Copy Share Image
“For an instant he was able to cross the line and understand this strange loyalty of Jew to Jew. Those Jews who… — Leon Uris Israel Copy Share Image
“From there Ari took her to the church which marked the place of the miracle of the multiplication of loaves and fishes… — Leon Uris Beatitudes Copy Share Image
“This was what I came to found. The conquest of loneliness was the missing link that was one day going to make… — Leon Uris Greatest love Copy Share Image
Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some… — Leon Uris Age Copy Share Image
The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features. — Leon Uris Ability Copy Share Image
“Value time!!! It's only when we lack time for ourselves that we start valuing it.” — Leon Uris Time Copy Share Image
There is in us all that line that prevents us from fully understanding those who are different. — Leon Uris Alike Copy Share Image
