Leon Uris

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish.

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

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.

I feel sorry for generations of Labour voters and supporters who must look and wonder what on earth has gone wrong and what Labour is for.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.