Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, Good Luck Quotes

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

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If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract 'movies,' and the result is 'zero.'

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I write to empty my mind and to fill my heart.

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I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

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At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.

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I started writing when I was about thirteen.

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Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

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Teaching and writing have tended to proceed on parallel lines, but there have been times when there was indeed carry-over from the classroom to the creative work.

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All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.

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When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

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I am one thing, my writings are another.

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I live alone in a house, so for me it's very good to just be able to re-charge and just disappear and escape from reality and that's usually when I write most of my lyrics and my songs. It's a very happy productive place.

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For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."

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I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.

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Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

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I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.

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Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.

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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

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Writing is the great invention of the world.

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Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him. [Lat., Scripta ferunt annos; scriptis Agamemnona nosti, Et quisquis contra vel simul arma tulit.]

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