I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

The world was my home and I was glad to be in it.

The order I found was the order of disorder.

I loved the theaters, and even though I was hungry, I never spent money for food.

The question we writers are asked most often, the favorite question, is: Why do you write? I write because I have an innate need to write. I write because I ca…

When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children. For aside from …

The only other important thing to be said about Fear & Loathing at this time is that it was fun to write, and that's rare - for me, at least, because I've alwa…