Writing Quote by Hunter S. Thompson Download Open image ““Writing is the flip side of sex - it's only good when it's over.”” — Hunter S. Thompson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Writing is like making love. Connecting with another person's mind is the deepest form of penetration.” — Shawn Stern Copy Share Image
“Writing is like having a lover. Sometimes it's wonderful and sometimes it's a pain in the neck.” — Rick Springfield Copy Share Image
“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Even when I don't have to write, I arrange it every morning with the pointless rigor that has made me lose so many lovers.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Writing is like a relationship. When it is good, it is damn good; when it is bad, you contemplate murder.” — Nevea Lane Copy Share Image
“When it was time to write, and he took his pen in his hand, he never thought of consequences; he thought of style. I… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for the… — Tracie Podger Copy Share Image
“Writing is like masturbation. It might not bear fruit, but it certainly does feel good.” — Charles Delmar author of My Cooking Coach and creator of MyCookingCoach.com Copy Share Image
“There was also the fact that sending a penniless writer to get $135 worth of beer was — as Khrushchev said of Nixon —… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Cases of champagne and scotch lay broken in the street, and everyone I saw had a bottle. They were screaming and dancing, and in… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal? What… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“For several months they'd been drifting toward political involvement, but the picture was hazy and one of the most confusing elements was their geographical… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image