Joseph Heller Quotes
When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
J. D. Souther
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When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.
J. Michael Straczynski
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
Kami Garcia
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.
Naomi Klein
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
Ted Chiang
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We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
Adam D'Angelo
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I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.
Vince Gill
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Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
Rachel Cusk
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
Harrison Birtwistle
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As much as I enjoy traveling and playing on stage as an artist, I really find my true sense of purpose in a room writing a song.
Sam Hunt
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I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
Dana Spiotta
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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
Dan Brown
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When I'm writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids haven't left me.
Sadie Jones
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
Verite
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Writing is a form of licensed madness.
Mal Peet
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Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.
Jack Kent Cooke
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Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.
Gabrielle Zevin
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At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on the keyboard, I'm spending another hour trying to figure out some tiny detail I need answered.
Gail Carriger
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A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors.
Clive Owen
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The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.
Leon Redbone
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That's the power of television. You come into people's homes every week, and that creates a familiarity and a false sense of intimacy.
Jason Priestley
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The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.
Fareed Zakaria
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Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement
Aamir Khan
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When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'
Joseph Heller