William McKeen Quotes

But he discovered his success later, when he began to write just like he talked.

Hunter Thompson wrote suicide notes all his life.

Life as Hunter Thompson's mother was no weenie roast.

The latest firing had put him at a crossroads: he could continue with the fantasy of being a writer, or he could actually make the commitment.

He wrote his mother that he had begun to hate the sight of his typewriter.

He taught himself to write, retyping books by writers he admired: Steinbeck, Hemingway, Faulkner... the usual heavyweights. He said he wanted to get inside the rhythm of their language and find his own stlye.

To the generation of young political reporters, Hunter was Mount Rushmore, a living god on earth.

Now the ashes drifted, as Hunter must have known they would, back toward the guests standing in front of the viewing pavilion. As the guests stood holding their glasses, the ash floated and settled into their drinks.

His journalism was usually about journalism: no matter what he started out off writing about, he ended up writing about Hunter Thompson trying to cover a story.

One of Hunter's first acts upon moving to Colorado was serving as best man at Billy's wedding to Anne Willis. Aside from Hunters putting out his cigarette in the holy water, the wedding transpired without major incident.

The Dream obsessed him ... but what was it? Was it Horatio Alger, rags to riches, the idea that you could start with nothing and end up rolling naked in stacks of hundreds? Or was it a dream of freedom? Personal freedom...or the concept of freedom that the founders brought into the whole world?

He kept growing. He thought it was very important to keep growing all your life.

For a man complaining about the agony of celebrity, he wasn't doing anything to stop perpetuating his image as America's premier outlaw journalist.

And whether he wanted to be or not, he was famous.

The lifestyle of the character he had created had consumed him.