Hunter S. Thompson Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

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

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sex, Writing, Flip

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Aug 18, 2014

• 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 screaming down on you like a goddamn banshee. There's no avoiding it...So one day you just don't appear at the El Adobe bar anymore; you shut the door, paint the windows black, rent an electric typewriter and become the monster you always were - the writer.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Typewriters, Doors

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

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Money, Writing, Epic

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.106, Ballantine Books

• 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

  Writing, Reality, Drug

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Thinking, Has Beens

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.205, Pan Macmillan

• 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 self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Fate, Dark

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it — or at least taping it, or even sketching it. Or all three. Probably the closest analogy to the ideal would be a film director/producer who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least a main character.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Character, Cameras

  "The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time".

• This is the way life goes in Big Sur. Waiting for the mail, watching the sea-lions in the surf or the freighters on the horizon, sitting in the tubs at Hot Springs, once in a while a bit of drink - and, most of the time, working at what ever it is that you came here to work on, whether it be painting, writing, gardening or the simple art of living your own life.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Art, Spring, Writing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.276, Ballantine Books

• 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 to write about it and putting it down in words, you can't avoid having your say on the subject. You might be wrong, but you have to think about it very intensely to write about it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Thinking, Sitting Down

• 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 language - and it is not because I am a biblical scholar, or because of any religious faith, but because I love the wild power of the language and the purity of the madness that governs it and makes it music.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Love, Religious, Book

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

• There is no story unless you've written it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Stories, Written

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.273, Pan Macmillan

• 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 banalities of everyday socializing.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Strong, Loneliness, Writing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.128, Ballantine Books

• 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

  Writing, Long, May

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

• 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

  Writing, Way, Freak

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Jul 22, 2014

• Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Artist, Reality

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

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fun, Writing, Hateful

  "The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time" by Hunter S. Thompson, (p. 109), 1979.

• 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 material you're writing about before you alter it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Artist, Reality

  "Depp to star in ‘Rum Diary’". Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. November 12, 2003.

• 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

  Running, Writing, Together

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.272, Pan Macmillan

• 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

  Lying, Writing, Order

  "The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters" by Hunter S. Thompson, Volume I, (p. 133), 1997.

• 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

  Writing, Pride, Imagine

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.272, Pan Macmillan

• ["Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas"] is a very hard book to translate to film because there's so much interior monologue. The what if factor. I tried to write it cinematically and let the dialogue carry it but I forgot about the interior monologue. It's kind of hard to show what's going on in the head. I think we should do it like a documentary.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

• Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Hero, Writing, Long

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

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