Christopher Hitchens Quotes

I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.

I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

I just wrote what I wanted to be reading.

Writing will remain a passion project.

I didn't do any writing seriously until I was in my mid-twenties. But I've never really thought of myself as doing anything else. I've always wanted to write.

I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.

I was one of those kids who always wrote.

I love to write. It's my first love.

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.

I have written ever since I knew mechanically how to do it.

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.

I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.

I had a strong desire to write and some free time.

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

I have dreamt of being an author since the age of 14, and writing about my experiences has always been a part of digesting an experience and sharing it with others.

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

I've always loved writing. It was always what I wanted to do.

I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

I'm way into writing, as much as I can.

Anything that feels like good characters, I am excited to do whether I write it or not. But if I don't find it in the world, I will write it myself.

When I ventured into writing at the age of 17, I wanted to be a good and successful writer. I just wanted to write good stuff - poems, prose, stories, essays, everything.