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Writer Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson
- When you write for a living and you can't do anything else, you know that sooner or later that the deadline is going to come…
- I learned from # Hemingway that you could be a # writer and get away with it.
- I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and attended many trials…
- 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…
- Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.
- I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the…
- The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow…
- As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a…
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