114 Quotes by Leon Uris

My guiding thought throughout was that the real Marine story had not been told. We were a different breed of men who looked at war in a different way.

You start with your life experience and then you can become more inventive, but the human relationships always come from your own life experience.

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.

I realized there was more to be said about the Larkin family and certainly more to be understood about the Easter Rising and the significance of it.

You usually don't know what you are going to write about so you go to the places and talk to the people who were identified with the events.

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.

Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel.

A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.

A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.