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
Leon Uris quotes about
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.
book fact greatest jews kept struggled stuck tenacity
The Jews struggled and stuck together. Their tenacity kept them alive. The fact that my book was a part of this struggle is my greatest achievement.
certainly easter family realized rising understood
I realized there was more to be said about the Larkin family and certainly more to be understood about the Easter Rising and the significance of it.
behave book product
Your book catches on like any other new product and once it does you are there and how you behave when you get there is up to you.
war honor battle
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.
inspiring people enough
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.
friendship enemy world
Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
fighting sun sun-rise
Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?
fighting race fire
To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at his post in the thick of fire to serve the cause of mankind.
feet soldier wheels
A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.
secret way lasts
A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.
running hurt son
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.