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Writing Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson
- Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
- There is no story unless you've written it.
- Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.
- Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the…
- I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively ... For words are merely tools…
- I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else in the English…
- 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…
- One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because by forcing yourself…
- 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…
- There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad…
- I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like f***ing — which is fun only for amateurs. Old…
- Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a whole bunch of…
- I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline.
- Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.
- 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…
- I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a…
- 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…
- I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me
- I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works,…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- 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
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- 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
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- 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