Leon Uris

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish.

You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.

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

I don't like to get in front of people.

People say, 'Where do you live?' and I say that theoretically, I live in London, but basically that's just where I go to change my suitcase. Otherwise, I'm always flying somewhere.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.