Joseph Heller Quotes

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Joseph Heller

Profession : Novelist

Birth : May 1, 1923

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

Joseph Heller

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

Joseph Heller

I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.

Joseph Heller

The idea of using actual clippings came about as a way of characterizing Gold. Gold uses clippings because he hates doing research and is not even really interested in the books and articles he writes.

Joseph Heller

I think Haig will be foolish, but perhaps not quite as foolish as Kissinger was, because Haig doesn't have the education Kissinger had. Haig is a little more dangerous because, I fear, he believes what he says, whereas I never got that impression from Kissinger.

Joseph Heller

I've adjusted to this, that my books are not going to get unanimously good reviews.

Joseph Heller

All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.

Joseph Heller

I've only had four ideas for a novel in my life, and I've written all of them.

Joseph Heller