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
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
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
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
I learned from # Hemingway that you could be a # writer and get away with it. — 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
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 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
“The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: 1) A blind willingness to believe anything you're told by the coaches, flacks,… — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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