Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, Political Quotes

All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

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I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service.

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I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

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It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

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Instead of noting down things I’m unlikely to forget, I will write a poem. Even if I have never written one before and even if I never do so again, I will at least know that I once had the courage to put my feelings into words.

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Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it. I don't write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.

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CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.

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I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.

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Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty custom of scriveners and printers to write the letters "T" and "H" joined together, which resembleth a "Y," do incontinently jump to the conclusion the THE is pronounced "Ye,"--the like of which I never heard in all England.

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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.

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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

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I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

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I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it's a big effort these days. So I often write back.

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For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

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Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.

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I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.

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Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

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Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.

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I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

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