Leon Uris Quotes

If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

I ultimately write for myself and the people I love.

The first audience that you have when writing a book is you.

I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.

You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

A lot of what I do outside acting is really just for me.

I don't mean it to sound egomaniacal, but in a way, for me, it was very useful to imagine that I was the only one who was taking pen in hand. I'd always been told that it was impossible to be published, so I was writing only for myself.

I'm just going to keep trying to write music for me because that's what got me here.

I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.

My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.

I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me.

I guess I could say that I pursue questions that interest me in ways that interest me on the page, but that's awfully vague.

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

I don't write about my life in my column.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

I, in the end, make art for myself.

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.