Quotes about Author
Help him! Help who? Help the bombardier! I'm a bombardier. Help him, help him! Help who?
— Joseph Heller
Moses has the Ten Commandments, it's true, but I've got much better lines - King David
— Joseph Heller
The Texan wanted everybody in the ward to be happy but Yossarian and Dunbar. He was really very sick.
— Joseph Heller
If you run into trouble, just tell everybody that the security of the country requires a strong domestic Egyptian-cotton speculating industry.
— Joseph Heller
Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was
— Joseph Heller
this used to be a pretty good country to live in before they loused it up with their goddam piety.
— Joseph Heller
Don't you see what that means? Now you can take me off combat duty and send me home. They're not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?" "Who else will go?
— Joseph Heller
The three most harmful negative emotions are anger, guilt, and fear. And anger is number one. It is also the strongest and most dangerous of all passions.
— Joyce Meyer
I intend to focus on the question of truth. That means I do not inquire about facticity-what happened-but what is claimed, what is asserted here about reality.
— Walter Brueggemann
In one way or another, it is evident that the Jerusalem liturgy celebrated the kingship of Yahweh.
— Walter Brueggemann
bestselling and award-winning author Wanda E. Brunstetter is one of the founders of the Amish fiction genre. She has written close to 90 books translated in four languages. With over 10 million copies sold, Wanda's stories consistently earn spots on the nation's most prestigious
— Wanda Brunstetter
His [the author's] renown… has been purchased, not by deeds of violence and blood, but by the diligent dispensation of pleasure.
— Washington Irving