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Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Bad writing is better than never writing. Bad writing can be improved, but if you never write, you'll never improve.
— Caroline Hemingway
Easy reading is hard writing,
— Ernest Hemingway,
I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The first draft of anything is shit.
— Ernest Hemingway,
In order to write about life first you must live it.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The further you go in writing the more alone you are.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?
— Ernest Hemingway,
Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.
— Ernest Hemingway,
There is no rule on how to write.
— Ernest Hemingway,
It is why I bother with you," he said. "I think you write absolutely truly and that is very rare. So I would like you to know some things.
— Ernest Hemingway,
You know you're writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.
— Ernest Hemingway,
My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I always shot scorpions with the .22 pistol.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs.
— Yannis Philippakis
Live it up so you can write it down.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?
Y.C.: An unhappy childhood. — Ernest Hemingway,
Y.C.: An unhappy childhood. — Ernest Hemingway,
Good. Coffee is good for you. It's the caffeine in it. Caffeine, we are here. Caffeine puts a man on her horse and a woman in his grave.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters ... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.
— Ernest Hemingway,
There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.
— Ernest Hemingway,
There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Tell him I think writing is lousy," Bill said. "Go on, tell him. Tell him I'm ashamed of being a writer.
— Ernest Hemingway,
It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.
— Ernest Hemingway,
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
— William Faulkner
Those who say they want to be writers, and aren't writing, don't.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.
Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged. — Ernest Hemingway,
Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged. — Ernest Hemingway,
Hemingway himself and Hemingway's writing were both brilliant, brilliant cocktails.
— Lesley M.M. Blume
You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.
— Ernest Hemingway,
For me, all writing
storytelling and style
gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order. — Dennis R. Miller
storytelling and style
gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order. — Dennis R. Miller
The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
— Ernest Hemingway,
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all.
— Todd Snider
Worry destroys the ability to write.
— Ernest Hemingway,