Leon Uris Quotes

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

It's hard to imagine my life not writing. I love it.

Any writer who says he loves writing is crazy. Or lying.

I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one.

I wouldn't do a project if it weren't a story I wanted to tell. That's rewarding in itself, as a writer, if you're working on a story that you enjoy telling.

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family.

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.

I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.

I find contentment in the craft of writing and fulfillment in self-expression.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

I was definitely meant to be a young adult author, and I love it - I'm here to stay!

Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers.

To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

I'm one of those writers who say, 'I've enjoy having written.'

The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief.

What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

I'm not one of those true writers who can't bear not to be writing. Yet it's one of the most important things in my life.

I love to write. It's my first love.