Leon Uris Quotes

I write what I want to write.

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

The way to write is well, and how is your own business.

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

Nobody owns me or my music.

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

That is the true joy of being a solo artist. I can do whatever I want. I can go wherever I want. I can show up with my guitar and my song, and it can sound a hundred different ways. That's the freedom of being on your own. The flipside is: That's you on the cover. If it sucks, it's your fault.

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

As far as I'm concerned, freedom is the most important thing to creativity. You should feel free to write in whatever way, whatever language, feels comfortable to you.

As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!

No one told us what to wear, what to write, what to play. When they tried to, we shot 'em down easily.

The beautiful thing about being independent and having my own label is I can say whatever the hell I want.

I love photography - I fell in love with photography, I think, because it was my own thing, it wasn't something I needed other people's permission to do. So, it was really freeing for me actually to be able to not be a famous person and just to take pictures.

The genius must have his freedom and his independence.

Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.

Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it.

Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.

At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am.

All artists are now free to express their own personality.

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.