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Leon Uris

"I was a terrible English student."

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Akiroq Brost

"In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art."

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"If your eyes and mind can SEE IT, the body does not require external motivation to get motivated."

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"Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us."

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"I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective."

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"I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943."

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"It is imperative that you grow, because your personal growth and development is one of the most important things to you. Your growth is good for you " it must be deliberate."

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"Losing someone doesn't scare me. Death doesn't scare me. What scares me is the inability to no longer feel the touch of the one you love."

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"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly."

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"I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream."

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"I can do anything I want. Be with anyone I want. And it'll be my choice."

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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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"Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it."
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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 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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"Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built."
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"It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find."
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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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"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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"So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain."
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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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