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Leon Uris

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

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

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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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"So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain."
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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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