I learned from # Hemingway that you could be a # writer and get away with it. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Writing is the flip side of sex - it's only good when it's over.” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking - which is fun only… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like f***ing — which is fun only… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as sitting at a desk writing.” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking — which is fun only… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
["Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas"] is a very hard book to translate to film because there's so much interior monologue. The… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I have explained many times that I am, by Profession, a Gambler -- not some jock-sniffing nerd or a hired human squawk-box… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
When you write for a living and you can't do anything else, you know that sooner or later that the deadline is… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
He knew who I was, at that time, because I had a reputation as a writer. I knew he was part of… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it — or at least taping it, or even… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I am a confused Musician who got sidetracked into this goddamn Word business for so long that I never got back to… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
This is the way life goes in Big Sur. Waiting for the mail, watching the sea-lions in the surf or the freighters… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Journalism, to me, is just another drug – a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight. But I'm… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Well … yes, and here we go again. But before we get to The Work, as it were, I want to make… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“There was also the fact that sending a penniless writer to get $135 worth of beer was — as Khrushchev said of… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I was once arrested with [Allen] Ginsburg. He was a big help to me. He was one of the few people who… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Jim Harrison is someone I always enjoy, one of the great contemporary writers. I like Tim Ferris' Big Boom Theory. I'm getting… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively ... For words… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“There was also the fact that sending a penniless writer to get $135 worth of beer was — as Khrushchev said of Nixon —… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Cases of champagne and scotch lay broken in the street, and everyone I saw had a bottle. They were screaming and dancing, and in… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal? What… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“For several months they'd been drifting toward political involvement, but the picture was hazy and one of the most confusing elements was their geographical… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
![“Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.” quote by Hunter S. Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/266/hunter-s-thompson-278_friendship_allen-ginsberg-was-a-particular-friend-o_1185994.jpg)
![“I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway.” quote by Hunter S. Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/79f/hunter-s-thompson-278_bizarre_i-haven-t-found-a-drug-yet-that-can-get_1679668.jpg)
![“["Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas"] is a very hard book to translate to film because there's so much interior monologue. The what if factor. I tried to write it cinematically and let the dialogue carry it but I forgot about the interior monologue. It's kind of hard to show what's going on in the…” quote by Hunter S. Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/398/hunter-s-thompson-278_book_fear-loathing-in-las-vegas-is-a-very-har_780146.jpg)
![“The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.” quote by Hunter S. Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/77d/hunter-s-thompson-278_ability_the-most-important-thing-a-writer-can-ha_2177091.jpg)
![“I was once arrested with [Allen] Ginsburg. He was a big help to me. He was one of the few people who read unknown writer's work. Maybe he was just hustling me. He liked to flirt, Allen. They called him a monster but he was only falling in love.” quote by Hunter S. Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d12/hunter-s-thompson-278_arrested_i-was-once-arrested-with-allen-ginsburg_119642.jpg)
