Leon Uris Quotes

You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.

Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it.

So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain… and retain.

Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.