P. J. O'Rourke Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Reading, Book

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.11, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population of the world.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Writing, Heart, World

  P.J. O'Rourke (2009). “On The Wealth of Nations: A Book that Shook the World”, p.85, Atlantic Books Ltd

• I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Writing, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Ever read any [Friedrich] Hayek? He's great. The Road To Serfdom is like... I'm not a big political-science reader, but I actually dog-eared my copy. I ended up going back through it and writing a précis, I was so impressed by this book. It's all about what happens when government tries to make everything right.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Dog, Book, Writing

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• The Road To Serfdom was written during WWII, and basically it's an anti-Nazi, anti-communist thing, but also it's an anti-Conservative and anti-Labor-party thing aimed at the British. He was an Austrian, writing in Britain. And I feel like now, I guess, everybody pays lip service to libertarian - and, indeed, many conservative - ideas, and yet they keep moving forward with an increasingly bureaucratic state. It shows itself in all sorts of little ways.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Party, Moving, Writing

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• I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Writing

  "PJ O'Rourke - the rightwinger it's OK for lefties to like" by Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.

• Bob Wallace was my editor at Rolling Stone when I first started writing there, and he's a wonderful editor. I was in the Philippines during the Marcos overthrow, and I was up on what was called Smokey Mountain. I think it's gone now, but it was a garbage dump with a bunch of people living on it. I was talking to Bob on the phone, and I told him, "I'm a humorist. I can't write about this." And Bob told me to let my style be dictated by the subject, to take what I saw and write about it in the tone that it requires.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Writing, Thinking, Phones

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labor camp. Please, talented scribblers, write what you don't. The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Teacher, Writing, Thinking

• The Lampoon started in 1970, and I began writing freelance for them around the end of 1971, and then all through '72. They hired me in '73, and I left early in '81. I did everything from low puns to being editor-in-chief.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Writing, Editors, Ends

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I went back to bumming around New York, writing freelance stuff for Car & Driver and such.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  New York, Writing, Car

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• I had really not been out of the United States much, except for Mexico. I thought, "Jesus Christ, this [Russia] is like a whole new world." Instead of writing Michael Jackson one-glove jokes, all I had to do was go to these weird places and keep my eyes and ears open.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Jesus, Writing, Eye

  Source: www.avclub.com

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