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" My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953. "
Leon Uris
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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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" 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 have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. "
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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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" So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain. "
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" I essentially write for myself. "
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" I was a terrible English student. "
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" Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about. "
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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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