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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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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.
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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.
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Writing is a form of licensed madness.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs.
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The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.
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Whether it's writing songs, being on stage, being interviewed, meeting fans - I just try to be myself, which is kind of exhausting because it almost feels like it never shuts off.
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Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.
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There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject’s sake, and those who write for writing’s sake. The first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to them worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money.
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You can think deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper into a subject, depending on what you are writing about.
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Joseph Warren, like a lot of revolutionary leaders, was into Enlightenment literature.
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The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
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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?'
