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
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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.
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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.
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Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built
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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. It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find. Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.
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I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.
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My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You start with your life experience and then you can become more inventive, but the human relationships always come from your own life experience.
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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.
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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.
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Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.
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Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel.