Christopher Hitchens Quotes

Writing and speaking and communicating, it's something important to me, and something I want to get better at.

Reading taught me how to write.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

word thrower … phrase maker

I'm a writer. My job is to speak what - that which I think is true. If that bridges the gap, that's good. If it doesn't, that's too bad.

Words are my life.

I know a lot about words. I get paid to write stories, so I get to talk with people about the meaning behind words all day.

If you're ever struggling for something to say, just take a noun and verbalize it. Using simple words in new and interesting ways will creativize your presence.

All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, "How are you" or "I'm not feeling well" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh.

My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.

Speech is the best show a man puts on.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

To write you have to be able to know how to put words together.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.

When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

Words are so lovable. How could you not love words?

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

The only thing you have to know are your words.

I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening.

To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.