Quotes by Leon Uris

About Leon Uris:

Leon Marcus Uris was an United States Marine and author, known for his historical fiction and the deep research that went into his novels. His two bestselling books were Exodus (published in 1958) and Trinity (published in 1976).
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

[The Lord's Supper teaches that] Rituals are good, and they are instituted and used by God to 'connect' his people with him. We learn through ritual that the church is not just made up of individuals, but is a corporate body. It is not just about per...

Leon Uris

Like so many creative men of his school he was hounded by an incessant restlessness.

Leon Uris

No attempt should be made to "reconcile" Yahweh's hardening of Pharaoh's heart (plagues 6,8,9,10) with statements in the other plagues that Pharaoh hardened his own heart. The tension cannot be resolved in a facile manner by suggesting, for example, ...

Leon Uris

Repetition and familiarity work. What is repeated becomes familiar, and this becomes a part of us. Our own culture understands this, but alas, not always the church. Far too many equate ritual with spiritual dryness. True, ritual and liturgy can be d...

Leon Uris

Society says that to free a man from his demons you have to lock him in a cage; I say to lock his demons in a cage you have to free the man from society.

Leon Uris

Anything to declare? the customs inspector said."Two pound of uncut heroin and a manual of pornographic art," Mark answered, looking about for Kity. All Americans are comedians, the inspector thought, as he passed Parker through. A government tourist...

Leon Uris

Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness and we know you're feeling downtrodden. And they ...

Leon Uris

I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a writer mad, he'll end up writing Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottantail.

Leon Uris

A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be a winning marathon runner. Serendipity and blind faith faith in yourself won't hurt a thing. All the bastards in the world will snicker and sneer bec...

Leon Uris

In God's scheme what is a few billion years here and there. Perhaps there have come and gone a dozen human civilizations in the past billion years that we know nothing about. And after this civilization we are living in destroys itself, it will all s...

Leon Uris

For an instant he was able to cross the line and understand this strange loyalty of Jew to Jew. Those Jews who lived free in England were only there due to some quirk of fate instead of Aushwitz and every Jew knew that genocide could have happened to...

Leon Uris

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

Leon Uris

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

Leon Uris

Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.

Leon Uris

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.

Leon Uris

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

Leon Uris

I was a terrible English student.

Leon Uris

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.

Leon Uris

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

Leon Uris

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

Leon Uris

Author Bio

  • NameLeon Uris
  • DescriptionAmerican novelist
  • BornAugust 3, 1924
  • DiedJune 21, 2003
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Screenwriter; Novelist
  • WorksExodus; Mila 18