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Leon Uris

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

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

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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."

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"No, I don't want you to draw any conclusion. I want you to listen to what I just said."

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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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"I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps."
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"Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it."
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"My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953."
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"Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about."
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"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."
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"Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies."
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"I was a terrible English student."
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"So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain."
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