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Joseph Heller Quotes about Writing

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Every writer I know has trouble writing.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

Joseph Heller
Writing, Young Writers, Trouble
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

I can't start writing until I have a closing line.

Joseph Heller
Writing, Lines, Closing
Joseph Heller, Adam J. Sorkin (1993). “Conversations with Joseph Heller”, p.108, Univ. Press of Mississippi

The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.

Joseph Heller
Writing, Media, People

I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages.

Joseph Heller
Writing, Pages, Type

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'

Joseph Heller
Writing, Done, Tempted
"The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations". Book edited by Peter Kemp, p. 303, 1997.

I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me.

Joseph Heller
Writing, Flippant, Would Be

After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he knew saying that he was in the hospital but never mentioning why. One day he had a better idea. To everyone he knew he wrote that he was going on a very dangerous mission. "They asked for volunteers. It's very dangerous, but someone has to do it. I'll write you the instant I get back." And he had not written anyone since.

Joseph Heller
War, Writing, Ideas
Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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