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.
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.
husband men wife
You aren't a true husband/man until you've done the work of a wife/women
writing people breaking-down
Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.
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.
easter people rising
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 century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.
pride fool fortresses
Pride is a fool's fortress
writing difficult position
So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.
students terrible
I was a terrible English student.