Top 17 Quotes by Leon Uris

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.

It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find.

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

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

I essentially write for myself.

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

I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.

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 do not write for an audience.