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

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

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

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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.

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I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.

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I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.

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English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it.

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