Leon Uris Book Quotations

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

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

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

Your book catches on like any other new product and once it does you are there and how you behave when you get there is up to you.

The Jews struggled and stuck together. Their tenacity kept them alive. The fact that my book was a part of this struggle is my greatest achievement.

The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after. It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find. Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.

Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness and we know you're feeling downtrodden. And they said...I'll stand up for you. You're not lone anymore.

On one occasion I went to Afghanistan to look at the borders and learn something about the situation there to see if my book was there?and it wasnt.