Hunter Thompson On Writing Quotes

#1. He is coming, and I am here.

Audrey Niffenegger

#2. 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 trouble." And it may be true.

Hunter S. Thompson

#3. There is no story unless you've written it.

Hunter S. Thompson

#4. I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking, which is only fun for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling.

Hunter S. Thompson

#5. 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, it's like music.

Hunter S. Thompson

#6. I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.

Hunter S. Thompson

#7. Reality may not be what you want it to be, but it is the reality you now must face. You can deny this reality and try to wish it away, or you can accept it and not waste any energy on wanting it to be different.

David W. Earle

#8. We Are Interested In Others When They Are Interested In Us

Publilius Syrus

#9. I think it may have been Tom Wolfe (if it wasn't, my apologies, Tom, and my apologies to whoever it was) who said in print once, 'David Carradine lives the life that Hunter Thompson only writes about.'

David Carradine

#10. Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I am doing.

Wernher Von Braun

#11. I've spent a lifetime practicing, becoming who I must be to survive. Hiding in plain sight, always acting, always playing a part. There are times when I fear that I'll lose me, my true self, in the haze of the facade. But that fear doesn't matter to anyone besides myself.

Sara B. Larson

#12. Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.

Hunter S. Thompson

#13. 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 story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway.

Hunter S. Thompson

#14. Music resonates in so many parts of the brain that we can't conceive of it being an isolated thing. It's whom you were with, how old you were, and what was happening that day.

David Byrne

#15. Writing is the flip side of sex - it's only good when it's over.

Hunter S. Thompson

#16. I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively ... For words are merely tools and if you use the right ones you can actually put even your life in order, if you don't lie to yourself and use the wrong words.

Hunter S. Thompson

#17. 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 different runs at the lead. They're all good writing but they don't connect. So I end up having to string leads together.

Hunter S. Thompson

#18. I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline.

Hunter S. Thompson