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Leon Marcus Uris was an American author, known for his historical fiction. His two bestselling books were Exodus and Trinity .

✵ 3. August 1924 – 21. June 2003
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Famous Leon Uris Quotes

“Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.”

Leon Uris

Source: Qb VII

“All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.”

Leon Uris

“Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love.”

Leon Uris book Trinity

Source: Trinity

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

Leon Uris

Explaining how all his novels were researched; quoted in his Guardian obituary, 2003 http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2003/jun/25/guardianobituaries.books

“A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.”

Leon Uris

As quoted in Quotes for the Air Force Logistician, pub. Air Force Logistics Management Agency (2001), p. 115

“I was tough. I used everything to my advantage. I could be very ruthless.”

Leon Uris

Quoted in his New York Times obituary, 2003 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/25/obituaries/25URIS.html

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