Leon Uris Quotes

I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.

My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

I wanted to be a film and television writer and producer.

I like being a writer.

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.

I have an obligation as a writer to tell a story as interestingly as possible, but with integrity and not inserting false drama... I'm looking to be subtle, but being a wordsmith does not interest me - I want to communicate.

I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, 'Instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.'

I am a regular writer in Mexico, and I always tell the truth in my writings.

I wouldn't be a writer if I couldn't tell the truth.

Fiction needs writers and readers, and writers should cultivate both.

Most writers write from their own experiences. That is where the honesty and intensity of emotions come from.

I've been in various roles in TV - writer, producer, associate director.

I'm not a writer; I'm not a novelist.

I've always been a writer. I've always loved words, ever since I was a kid.

I've been a writer for years, but it was mainly as a function of trying to be a director, so I just got work as a writer. I want to keep directing.

I'm not an actress. I'm a writer.

My thing is to try to tell the truth as honestly as possible. For me, the weight is, how can I tell the truth through fiction, the best that I can?

There's a huge distance between who I am as a regular person and what takes place in my fiction.

I was always obsessed with being a writer of some sort.

I don't think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.

Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.