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

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

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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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"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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"I was a terrible English student."

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"Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it."

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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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"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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"Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about."

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