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Everybody feels like [a misfit] at different points in their life. If you feel like who you are is right for you, then you are beautiful.

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Leon Uris

Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them. " If you don't have it, don't become a writer.

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I essentially write for myself.

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The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after.

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On one occasion I went to Afghanistan to look at the borders and learn something about the situation there to see if my book was there?and it wasnt.

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My greatest accomplishment is Exodus. It changed a lot of peoples lives, it changed the conception of the Jewish people in the international scene.

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I do not write for an audience

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