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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. "
Important
You
Born
" 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. "
Proud
I Am
People
" I do not write for an audience. "
Audience
Write
" 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. "
Joy
You
Writing
" I essentially write for myself. "
Write
Essentially
Myself
" I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps. "
Marine Corps
Years
Writing
" I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. "
Struggle
Marine Corps
Inspiration
" It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find. "
Know
Important
Find
" I was a terrible English student. "
English
Terrible
Student
" I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer. "
Producer
Heavy
Honest
" My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953. "
First
Cry
Book
" Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies. "
Friends
Time
World
" Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built. "
Book
Writing
Research
" So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain. "
Retain
Position
Writing
" Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it. "
Trying
Good
End
" Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about. "
Relationships
You
Writing
" 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. "
Generation
Reach
You
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