Writing Quotes by Nat Hentoff

I read like everybody - like every other writer.

— Nat Hentoff

Being pro-life is an essential part of being a writer.

— Nat Hentoff

I wish [my wife] would [work] because - especially now the kind of - I mean, honesty is hardly the word. She…

— Nat Hentoff

I found out - the paper used to go to bed on Tues - on Monday. I found out that on Monday…

— Nat Hentoff

Lilian Ross was a - veteran writer for The New Yorker. She, in fact, brought me to The New Yorker many years…

— Nat Hentoff

When I first knew Bob Dylan, he lived in the Village. And for a man who, years after, would disdain publicity or…

— Nat Hentoff

Margot [Hentoff] used to write regularly for The Voice, for The New York Review of Books, for Harper's Bazaar, and she really…

— Nat Hentoff

[Bill Shawn] didn't edit the writers very strongly, but he knew what he wanted.

— Nat Hentoff

[Margot Hentoff] stopped [writing]. She decided that she had nothing more to say. And yet, every day, she has a whole lot…

— Nat Hentoff

I had not been very kind to J. Edgar Hoover. And the field agent had written on - it was sent directly…

— Nat Hentoff

I write a syndicated column for The Washington Post that goes to about 200, 250 papers.

— Nat Hentoff

I was writing - at least beginning to write Boston Boy and there were a lot of holes in my so-called research.…

— Nat Hentoff

What's wrong with it is, it lowers, to say the least, the credibility of the magazine. And if I were writing for…

— Nat Hentoff

Miranda [Hentoff] is a complete musician. She's a composer, a singer. She writes scripts along - with her projects. And she's a…

— Nat Hentoff

When John Adams - when - James Madison was writing - pretty much writing the Constitution, he got a letter from Thomas…

— Nat Hentoff

I told [a big investor in The New Yorker] - I was complaining the way writers complain.I said`[Bill Shawn] pays very well,…

— Nat Hentoff

I was very much against the Vietnam War, and Max Askeli was visiting Lyndon Johnson in the White House cheering him on,…

— Nat Hentoff

I felt better about myself that I did it [calling Max Askeli Commander Askeli], rather than have - rather than thinking it…

— Nat Hentoff

I write a column for The Village Voice, which I've done since time immemorial, and occasionally - and books. And I occasionally…

— Nat Hentoff

[Margot Hentoff] was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.

— Nat Hentoff

[Bill Clinton] was the man, as a matter of fact, who, in terms of the Communications Decency Act, which would have made…

— Nat Hentoff