Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it.

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  So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.

• Leon Uris:

  Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.

• Leon Uris:

  I do not write for an audience.

• Leon Uris:

  I essentially write for myself.

• Leon Uris:

  I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine

• Leon Uris:

  You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that i

• Leon Uris:

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• Leon Uris:

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• Pope Shenouda III:

  Debating religious beliefs are a red line, a deep red line.

• Pope Shenouda III:

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