“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

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