Writing Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

I wanted to write.

— Christopher Hitchens

If you can talk, you can write.

— Christopher Hitchens

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

— Christopher Hitchens

Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.

— Christopher Hitchens

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

— Christopher Hitchens

Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me.

— Christopher Hitchens

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

— Christopher Hitchens

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

— Christopher Hitchens

“Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member…

— Christopher Hitchens

Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.

— Christopher Hitchens

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live…

— Christopher Hitchens

“There must be some connection between the general nullity of Christie's prose and the tendency of her detectives to take Jewishness as…

— Christopher Hitchens

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I…

— Christopher Hitchens

It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch, saying that…

— Christopher Hitchens

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight…

— Christopher Hitchens

I'm very happy by myself--I'm lucky in that way--if I've got enough to read and something to write about and a bit…

— Christopher Hitchens

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It…

— Christopher Hitchens

I've been writing a lot about a new form of Russian imperialism. Actually, Russian Orthodox imperialism. It's very little remarked that the…

— Christopher Hitchens

Writing is what's important to me, and anything that helps me do that - or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos , or the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom…

— Christopher Hitchens

When the [US] president writes to Kim Jong Il, the son, the Dear Leader, he doesn't call him Dear Mr President, he…

— Christopher Hitchens

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was…

— Christopher Hitchens

Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's…

— Christopher Hitchens

“There is, in Dr. Tillotson’s writings, an argument against the real presence, which is as concise, and elegant, and strong as any…

— Christopher Hitchens

Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take…

— Christopher Hitchens

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll…

— Christopher Hitchens

“ Your favorite occupation? Travel in contested territory. Hard-working writing and reading when safely home, in the knowledge that an amusing friend…

— Christopher Hitchens

All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I had not particularly liked the way in which he wrote about literature in Beginnings , and I was always on my…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put…

— Christopher Hitchens

Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to…

— Christopher Hitchens

I can't compose or play music; I'm not that fortunate. But I can write and I can talk and sometimes when I'm…

— Christopher Hitchens

“For a lot of people, their first love is what they'll always remember. For me it's always been the first hate, and…

— Christopher Hitchens

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight…

— Christopher Hitchens

When I went to Czechoslovakia under the old Communist regime one day in the '80s, I thought to myself whatever I do,…

— Christopher Hitchens

I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel.…

— Christopher Hitchens

At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life…

— Christopher Hitchens

We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our…

— Christopher Hitchens

Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches…

— Christopher Hitchens