Leon Uris

"A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare."

"I was tough. I used everything to my advantage. I could be very ruthless."

"Research to me is as important, or more important, than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built."

"Leon Uris is a storyteller, in a direct line from those men who sat around fires in the days before history and made the tribe more human."