Quotes by Leon Uris

Leon Uris

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.

Hurt

Running

Son

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.

Novelists

Secret

Way

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

Feet

Soldier

Wheels

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.

Enough

Inspiring

People

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.

Battle

Honor

War

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

Insane

Lines

Writing

Anything to declare? the customs inspector said.”Two pound of uncut heroin and a manual of pornographic art,” Mark answered, looking about for Kity. All Americans are comedians, the inspector thought, as he passed Parker through. A government tourist hostess approached him.”Are you Mr. Mark Parker?””Guilty.

Art

Government

Two

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.

Brother

Cousin

Father

English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can’t buy it no one puts it there you’re born with it

Example

Important

Writing

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.

Easter

People

Rising

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Advantage

Agony

Apologizing

Apology

Art

Audience

Battle

Beautiful

Book

Borders

Breaking Down

Brother

Coming Home

Cousin

Crazy

Different

Difficult

Discipline

Easter

Ends

Enemy

Enough

Events

Example

Falling In Love

Father

Feet

Fighting

Fire

Firsts

Fool

Fortresses

Friends

Friendship

Generations

Genius

Ghetto

Government

Had Enough

Hands

Heavy

Home

Honest

Honor

Hurt

Husband

Important

Insane

Insatiable Hunger

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Quotes by Leon Uris

Leon Uris

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can’t buy it no one puts it there you’re born with it

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.

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