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Writing Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when…
- It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch, saying that he could tell…
- A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to…
- I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.
- I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.
- And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I…
- I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my…
- I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read any…
- Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work,…
- Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.
- Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand…
- 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 republic. Or who…
- Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather…
- Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.
- At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write as…
- 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 of alcohol for…
- I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is…
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
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- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
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- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov