Top 17 Quotes by Leon Uris

I do not write for an audience.

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.

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

Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.

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

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.

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.