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

~Leon Uris

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I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.

~Leon Uris

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

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

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

~Leon Uris

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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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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.

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

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I was a terrible English student.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: August 3rd, 1924

Died: June 21st, 2003

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