Christopher Hitchens Quotes

Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.

I've always been a very prolific writer.

Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.

I don't know how I do it, but I've written about everything. I've written about my shoes.

The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

I loved English, and I did very well in it. A lot of teachers encouraged me to write, and because of that, it later made me think it was possible to be a writer.

For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.

Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.

I wanted to write.

All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.

Writing is a lot of fun for me; that's not to say it's easy, but I really do enjoy it.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

I write, I write, I always write.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

I'm an author who likes assignments, who needs suggestions, ideas I would never have thought of otherwise - then something happens inside my alien head. Other people have to decide whether or not I'm a good writer, but I do have the ability to write in different styles.

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.

All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?

I write everywhere. I've written books while I was on planes, at Disney World, and in multiple countries of which I am not a native. It can be a struggle to make word count sometimes, but I will persevere!