Leon Uris
Leon Uris
Leon Marcus Uriswas an American author, known for his historical fiction. His two bestselling books were Exodusand Trinity...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth31 August 1924
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
identified people places talk
You usually don't 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.
experience human life relationships start
You start with your life experience and then you can become more inventive, but the human relationships always come from your own life experience.
breed guiding looked marine men throughout war
My guiding thought throughout was that the real Marine story had not been told. We were a different breed of men who looked at war in a different way.
friendship enemy world
Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
accomplishment people scene
My greatest accomplishment is Exodus. It changed a lot of peoples lives, it changed the conception of the Jewish people in the international scene.
lonely loneliness book
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.
pride fool fortresses
Pride is a fool's fortress
students terrible
I was a terrible English student.
jockeys honest heavy
I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer
understanding lines different
There is in us all that line that prevents us from fully understanding those who are different.