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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, and left the stage. — Leon Uris

Until a man is struck in his own face he does not want to believe the attack on his brother concerns him. — Leon Uris

Leon Uris is a storyteller, in a direct line from those men who sat around fires in the days before history and made the tribe more human. — Pete Hamill

A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare. — Leon Uris

Truth is what people want to believe and nothing more. — Leon Uris

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. — Leon Uris

Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it. — Leon Uris

and the righteous cowed and the evil grew bold. — Leon Uris

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. — Leon Uris

So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain ... and retain. — Leon Uris

The only time we can attract a crowd is for some pilgrimage up some god-damned holy mountain to chase the snakes and banshees out of the country. — Leon Uris

Rule ... " "Ours not — Leon Uris

I essentially write for myself. — Leon Uris

In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal. — Leon Uris

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953. — Leon Uris

I've not been right for any man or myself since I met you. — Leon Uris

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. — Leon Uris

Value time!!! It's only when we lack time for ourselves that we start valuing it. — Leon Uris

I was tough. I used everything to my advantage. I could be very ruthless. — Leon Uris

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer. — Leon Uris

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. — Leon Uris

You aren't a true husband/man until you've done the work of a wife/women — Leon Uris

I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps. — Leon Uris

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. — Leon Uris

My greatest accomplishment is Exodus. It changed a lot of peoples lives, it changed the conception of the Jewish people in the international scene. — Leon Uris

Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about. — Leon Uris

Pride is a fool's fortress — Leon Uris

I was a terrible English student. — Leon Uris

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. — Leon Uris

Nordstrom." "Would you care for some tea or a brandy?" "No ... Nicole, I know — Leon Uris

To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make. — Leon Uris

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. — Leon Uris

France was the first country in Europe to grant Jews the full rights of citizenship without qualification. — Leon Uris

They lingered over cups of ersatz coffee. — Leon Uris

It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find. — Leon Uris

The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features. — Leon Uris

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies. — Leon Uris

It all begins and ends in the same place, doesn't it? Conor and me in Ballyutogue. We all come home eventually. — Leon Uris

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. — Leon Uris

Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built. — Leon Uris

I do not write for an audience. — Leon Uris

In the end, what would Michele's life be? A — Leon Uris

Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane. — Leon Uris

Like so many creative men of his school he was hounded by an incessant restlessness. — Leon Uris

Subjugate the Arab world. Dr. Weizmann and the Zionists felt — Leon Uris

Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises? — Leon Uris

every day with you? Come on — Leon Uris